Well my husband has fallen in love with long distance! We are off on a new adventure. We leave Friday Feb 16th and fly to Chicago, London and Frankfurt where we will spend Saturday night. On Sunday we fly to Skopje Macedonia where a rep from the UN Development Program will pick us up and drive us 60 miles over the border to Vranje Serbia where Ron will work for two weeks, helping to identify the scope of work. Thirteen cities are involved with the program and as we understand it at this point, the program will create curriculum to help the cities improve general management. More on that after we arrive and learn more. But the bottom line is he was hired because of his experience in Sri Lanka. The work will be similar as we now understand it.

We will be gone for 82 days. We will go to Croatia to visit friends, then head back to Sri Lanka (SL) for Ron to do a two week stint on the project there. Afterwards we head to Thailand to goof off and work on the house there. We are going with a great landscape design in hand, done by the lovely Tess Beistel. This design will take several visits if not years to implement but what fun!

After Thailand we will head to London for a night and then on to Dublin where Ron has his annual International Committee meeting. Back to the east coast to see our family and next to Chicago to attend a wedding before coming home on May 7th.

We will blog as much as possible depending on Internet access. I have no idea of availability in Serbia as Vranje is a small town. So stay tuned.