Looking forward...

First, thanks so much to everyone who has supported us over the past two years of our service, whether by reading this blog, sending us mail, or simply by keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. From the bottom of our hearts...thank you. It means more than I can say to know that out of sight is not out of mind and you all have not forgotten about us while we have been on the other side of the world. This has been an incredible and life-changing experience for both of us, and we could not have done it without all of your support.

That said, our adventure is far from over. For the next two weeks, we will be hanging out in the capital, wrapping up various administrative stuff for Peace Corps, packing our things, and submitting our applications for graduate school. Jacob is applying to public policy and international affairs programs, and I am applying to public health and international development programs, all in the DC and NYC areas. After that, we will fly to Vietnam, spend about a week there, meet my parents and my brother in Bangkok, and spend the following couple weeks doing a bike tour of Thailand with them (hopefully not keeling over trying to keep up with them after two years of minimal real exercise and relatively poor nutrition). After that, I will fly to Delhi and do a tour of northern India and Nepal. Jacob will fly directly to Normandy, France and start French language classes. I will meet him there when the India/Nepal trip is over. After that it gets a bit fuzzier, but our priority is to pack in as much French language immersion as possible before the end of May, when we head back to the States. We're planning on doing a bit of a US country tour June-August before (hopefully) starting grad school in either DC or NYC in the fall. Whew! We'll be in touch as that time approaches - we want to see as many of you next summer as possible :-)

I'm not sure how much we'll have a chance to post pictures or write blog posts over the next 6 months, but we'll try, so check in every now and then if you think of it. Otherwise, thanks again and we look forward to seeing all of you in the not-so-distant future!