Biography
We got the travel bug late in life. Neither of us did the semester abroad that served as a kind of coming-of-age ritual for so many of my colleagues. We didn't have a whole lot of money early in our marriage but we did have relatives in the military stationed in interesting places. As a child-free couple we traveled to Alaska and Hawaii, San Francisco, Seattle, Nova Scotia, and Montreal.
For our tenth anniversary, after saying for years that we would go to England, Ireland, and Scotland, we changed our minds at the last minute and went to Italy. That trip changed my life.
And then six months later another trip changed it again. In a courtroom in St. Petersburg, Russia, we became parents.
That was almost four years ago and we are finally starting to feel like this is normal. It's certainly a daily challenge. Ultimately, we'd like to raise our boys to be citizens of the world, but right now we can barely take them to Friendly's.
