So Marty and I are off to Europe! What? Again?? WHY?? Didn’t you just do this, like, last year?

Let us explain. We really weren’t going to go on a big (i.e. EXPENSIVE) trip this year. Ya gotta kinda stagger those bank-busting retirement adventures or your money will expire before you do. BUT Bunny has been interested in going to an immersion program in France for, well, decades. She found a relatively low key one in a little town outside Paris but it was booked solid this year and well into 2016. Then, about a month ago, Bunny got an email from the immersion program teacher, saying there was a cancellation. Did she want a week in early October? Bunny thought it was a sign :). Marty thought it was a sign, too – that we were going to go WAY over our vacation budget this year. (Honestly, Marty was all in, right from the start…).

So we leave Tuesday (that’s tomorrow!). We’ll have a few days in Germany before the immersion week and then another three weeks meandering around France. We hope to share our adventures – with any of you who find yourselves with time on your hands, mindlessly sitting in front of your computers – in this blog.

(BTW, the photo above is of a lovely Oregon eatery, not an authentic French boulangerie . We included it because the bakeries in France rank among the top 10 reasons we like to go there. We promise much better photos if you check back in a few days!)