Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog! We’ve built this space to allow all of our friends and family to share our adventures and travels right along with us, so that you call can know what we’re up to despite being wherever we happen to be in the world.

We created this space (which we’re calling Hobbits Abroad) because we’ve tended to stick to the same little San Francisco Bay Area, somewhat in the manner of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits. We’ve traveled a bit, but haven’t strayed very far, and now feels like about the right time to stretch our feet a bit, and to wander the world, and to see what there is to see. The “Tookish” part of us is calling out to us at long last, and so we’re answering.

To begin with we’re heading to Scotland, of course – so that D. can attend graduate school at the University of Glasgow. This will have us traveling around Scotland for at least 1 year, but probably more like 4 years. We anticipate visiting all manner of places, of course, but will probably stick close to Scotland, with a bit of venturing into Ireland. (Immediately as I write that, however, I feel the challenge in the statement, calling me to travel elsewhere as well … all in good time).

As of yet, we’re still in the U.S., and still packing frantically. Our things leave us on the 31st, and will take anywhere between 30 and 45 days to reach us (wherever we end up living) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. We’ve purchased 200 cubic feet in a cargo container, so we’re shrink-wrapping as much as possible, and vacuum-packing our clothes. I feel sorry for the customs people, should they decide to open anything to inspect, as the clothes are squished down to half of the size they’d like to be!

Anyway, that’s about it for now – we just wanted to get something up here so that we’d have a place set up for everyone to visit. I’m sure that we’ll post more as things move along.

– D & T

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