Final Stats

9 months
17, 500 Miles on Toyota
3000 miles on Skoda Roomster
15 train rides in France and Spain
8 bus rides in Spain
39 States Visited
4 European Countries
10 Bags of Cheese Flavored Popcorn
1 Set of Tires
1 Set of Brakes
1 Fat Lip
6 nights of camping in the rain
20 pounds of pasta eaten
40 bottles of wine consumed
50 chocolate croissants eaten
100 miles of driving out of our way
1 bout of the flu
6 modes of transportation
Zero Speeding Tickets
No Fights

An Experience of a Lifetime-Priceless

Roby and Patti's Radical Sabbatical

Roby and I have decided to live "lightly". Come along for the journey through our trials and tribulations. This blog is posted with the most current adventure first. So, scroll to the bottom if you want to start from the beginning. Each entry has a continuous slideshow of photos for your viewing pleasure. If you double click on the photos it will take you to our photo web page and you are able to see enlarged versions. We welcome comments and any building tricks.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

TOTO We are Home

The drive from Del Mar to Phoenix is an easy straight shot and only about 5 hours. A good test of how we would do together in the car for an extended period of time because for the previous three years we never had to be in the car for more than an hour and a half. Along the 8 Highway we came upon our first sighting of a "sustainable" project. A huge wind turbine farm. As part of our goal to find our next landing spot, we are searching for all things "green". It is all just fitting into place.



As we left the great state of California and crossed the border into Arizona, we had our first feeling of dejas vu. (A blast of 90 degree heat in the sand dunes of Yuma). Almost as if we were coming out of a dream and questioning whether our last three and a half years really happened. We were driving on I-10 in our own toyota truck heading to our house. Toto say it isn't so.


Everything feels the same but at the same time feels different. I am not sure if we will ever be able to put our finger on how the drive into town affected us. Our friends are probably the only thing that is a familar constant and they have made our transition back to the mainland wonderful. Great Friends, Great Food, Great Fun (at reasonable prices!!) You cannot ask for anything more. We do not know what we would do without our bestest friend Kelly. She opens her home to us every visit and lets us treat it like it is our own. She is the ultimate friend. Everyone should have a Kelly in his/her life.


Most of our time in Arizona has been spent getting ready for the trip. The truck got new tires. We would have gotten funny looks driving around with red tires. Our container arrived and with the help of our friend Darryl, Roby and he unloaded it into our storage unit.


Roby flew up to Seattle for a few days to spend some time with his Dad who is fighting cancer. So everyone say a little prayer for him. Roby will return on Thursday March 11th and the radical sabbatical will begin. Our first stop-Montrose Colorado.


"Ain't got no worries because ain't in no hurry!!!"




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