Bon Voyage!

Here we are, 5 days until we take off!  Elisabeth (hereafter "ebug") and I thought it would be good to have a travel blog with a theme.  After many debates about various themes with my grandmother (topics ranging from breakfast cuisine to pets to modes of transportation) we finally settled on street food.  This isn't going to be a hard and fast rule, as we will undoubtedly blog about many other subjects, but hopefully will serve as somewhat of the unifying theme.

High level trip details:

Depart --  August 18th for Bogota Colombia.
Return -- unknown
Major destinations -- Machu Picchu November 1st-5th with Jason Norris and Thomas Minter (and others??), Galapagos (October time frame), Patagonia (November? December?), Iguazu Falls (??), and many others

What we had to do to get to the point of leaving for the trip...

• Vacate apartments
• Quit jobs
• Sell my car
• Box up personal belongings (and convince parents to store for us!!)
• Book plane tickets
• Shots (Typhoid, Hep A, Yellow Fever, Tetanus) and Malaria pills.
• Health/Dental insurance
• Start a blog!!!