The closer we get to Italy the more we come to realize we are going to be gone for nearly three months -- not three days, not three weeks but three, count'em, three months. OK eleven weeks actually, or just about 78 days.
Still, it continues to surprise me how ready we are. Financial details are pretty much in place. Tax returns will be filed before we go, and we will be paying our bills online and relying on our credit cards and ATM card to cover everything we need while traveling. Our health insurance will cover us abroad, our wills are up to date, power of attorney signed, and the car is taken care of: Sue's brother Dick will drive it while we are gone. Heidi Levins will check on the house regularly and if anything needs to be done she will contact either Dick in Massachusetts or Steve Ballard in Rutland. Steve has done a great deal of remodeling for us over the years and has been kind enough to be the point man in case any home emergency needs to be handled while we are in school in a land far, far away. Our mobile phone service as well as our cable modem will be in vacation mode while we are gone as will our trash pickup. Papers are cancelled and we let just about all of our magazine subscriptions lapse. Mail will be forwarded to Dick and Dorothy and Dick will tackle the chore of keeping an eye out for anything important.
After all we're not going to the far side of the moon.
Next, more details. Of course.
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