It's Almost Time!

The book that started it all! Rick Steves Europe through the Backdoor was given to me as wedding gift from Mike. It was tucked inside a beautiful Coach travel tote. I married a great man!

The countdown is on for the Shelton's European Vacation. A lot of planning has gone into this and we are hopeful to not be too much like the Griswolds. We will in fact be visiting many of their favorite locations though - including Stonehenge and while this will be our first day with a car we will try our hardest not to knock it down.

As many of you know, we have been planning this trip for about 18 months. The decision to take a big trip to Europe came when Mike and I were discussing our honeymoon. It wasn't feasible last year because of the election (yes we are political nerds) so we decided to combine it with a postbar exam trip. I finish the Ohio Bar on Thursday, July 30 at 12:15 and we leave Cbus for Philly at 3:41 on Friday, July 31 : ) Moss doesn't grow on a rolling stone. Thanks to cost savings days our trip has grown from approx 10 days to 21. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

To give you a rough idea of where we are heading here is a basic schedule for our 21 day trip. London, Dublin, West Ireland/Dingle, Normandy, Paris, Swiss Alps, Munich, Rhine, Amsterdam. It should be a whirlwind trip but we are looking forward to it.

For ease of communicating with our friends and family we are going to both be posting on this blog regularly while abroad. This will let us tell stories and share pictures as well go. I expect there will be a couple packing posts as well. We are going for the full 21 days with a just a big backpack a piece and well this should be interesting.

Gena