IS this really happening? Take off!

Well tomorrow is it. We have about 90% of our things packed and just a few last min things tomorrow morning. We have also secured our housing for almost are whole trip. It's amazing that we have so many international friends. People always ask me why I do couchsurfing or let strangers into my home? WELL... this is the reason. When we hosted we had no travel plans but it's something both of us enjoy doing and really practice paying it forward. Over the past 6 years of couchsurfing I have meet so many amazing people AND they are so generous. The host we will be staying with that has the coolest story I would have to say is... Alan Don Jones. Let me tell you this story, it kinda goes like this... 4 years ago I set out to do some soul searching and I was not in a place where I felt happy. In my job, in my life and it just seemed like everything didn't work. I decided I wanted to go on the open road trip w/ my dog and just drive, camp and live! On my stop in TEXAS. Lubbock, Texas to be exact I meet Alan Don Jones. A Global studies student at Texas Tech from Austin. Great guy hosted an international dinner for me. There were people from France, Iran, Africa and prolly Timbuktu! That's where I meet Joel, a French/ Korean... cool huh?! Anyway, after my trip Joel and I have become great friends and shared many adventures together in Death Valley, Yosemite, San Francisco and somewhere else I can't remember. BUT after the dinner and staying at Alan's in Lubbock I stayed with his parents outside of Austin. When they sent me off his mother told me to take a jar of her homemade pickled okra?! So, fast forward to 2013, Alan was doing a roadtrip around the US with his girlfriend. They landed outside of Yosemite and we meet up for coffee. Of course, his mother who I stayed with in Austin has instructed him to give me homemade canned apple butter when he saw me. Now Alan is living in Berlin where were we will meetup again! This world is so small if you just expand your mind and allow others in. I am so fortunate to have Geoff to really guide me on this trip and that we get a chance to experience this together. He is also very luck to have me. :-) We hope that there are lots of internets or Wifi that we can update this blog frequently. Happy Travels and we will see you soon! PS- Both of us are in good health now. Thanks for all the blessings.