When You Decide to Up and Leave....

We are not sure when or exactly how we ended up on the same page, but five or six years ago we decided that when we finished paying college tuition for our third and youngest daughter we would move to Italy for a period of time. Mindy had the life long dream of living overseas and after returning to Siena, Italy time after time to study the Italian language, the list of other places we wanted to visit just became longer and longer. The idea of an inexpensive flight to "spend a long weekend in Norway" grew into the process of planning this move. The physical part of this move begins in 4 days but the preparation goes back a few years with a lot of learning curve. We'll use this blog to document our adventures, a couple of fifty somethings with our two big dogs, and we'll back track to fill in some of the blanks on how we got here in hopes it might help others figure out how to make a move to Italy, or wherever they're drawn, work for them.