The adventure has begun! We are currently waiting at PDX for our flight to Salt Lake City (where we’ll connect to Paris and then to Nice). The rest of the trip goes as follows: five nights in Villefranche-sur-mer (France), seven nights in Tuscany/Umbria/Florence and then five nights in Rome. It’s amazing to rattle that off in one sentence when it took, like, five weeks full time to plan it all…

But now we’ve begun and we can relax and just enjoy the ride! Our good buddy Greta drove us to the airport (thanks, sweetie!) and we are all in a good mood, looking forward to seeing OLD stuff, eating good food and drinking chianti and – best of all – meeting a ton of interesting people.

Check out this photo of us at pdx – wait, who the hell is that? Ben???