It all begins with the plane tickets

There is something momentous about spending $2600. Airplane tickets to take you from North America to India for two adults cost us just that much. Our trip was instantly transformed from an idea in our head to tangible trip we can hold in our hands. Man, we don't have much time to learn Hindi. And there is not much time to finish all the things that we'd like to finish here in Portland.

But hey, that is the way it goes while we make an abrupt change in our lives. That is the cost: that we might not get every little loose end tied up; that we do not know where our next apartment will be when we return; that we do not know when or where we will return; and perhaps most importantly, that we do not know how this trip will change us.

We welcome the adventure all the more.