Well time to get this started... we've left our jobs, left our home, left our family and friends, and of course *sigh* we left our kitty.

    Asia. It's cheap, diverse, warm, beautiful, good eating, great culture, history everywhere.... the list, it's endless. It's hard to believe a year, we're gone for a year! When we traveled together last time four years ago, it changed us. It showed us a different pace of life, gave us different priorities, and has been some what of a goal since we left to get back there. We've reached a point in our lives now that it was a fork in the road, do we continue with work and possibly start a family? Or do we go backpacking. It wasn't an easy decision, but it's the one we knew we had to make. So we leave Monday at 12:30pm out of Vancouver. Fly into China for a four hour lay over and then onto Bangkok. We purchased a one way ticket, with the hopes of not being constricted with an end date. We are free to go as slow or as fast as we can. The list of places we wish to visit are long, but again, without a flight home booked, we can do what we wish. We are glad to be writing a blog and are happy to take so many of you with us as we go. We know this trip is not going to be easy, there is going to be so many times we wish we were at home, in our house, surrounded by our life. But this is the choice we made and the rewards are so much more then words can describe. We will try to write often, post pictures when we can, we are glad that you are with us.

Goes by in a blink. Sometimes the hard days seem so long and the good times seem so fast. When you add it all up, its your life and man does it go by fast.