Change of plans

As many of you may know, my wife and I were planning a trip to Europe. We had been pretty excited, seeing that we haven’t had the chance to travel together (except for a short honeymoon) due to life busy-ness and health issues. Needless to say after 9 years of being together we were pretty excited… but sometimes the universe is sending you messages. Sometimes you ignore these messages as long as you can until there is a pile of them visibly blocking your doorway. Well, there has been a lot going on in Europe recently, not just involving COVID-19. We had been planning to go to Turkey and possibly the Greek Islands, which seem to be in an unfortunate escalation with Syria. Also, Tessa threw her back out, and while she has recovered quite a bit in the last two days, sitting up is still painful. A 12 hour plane ride could in fact be agony. It just seems like it’s time to put this trip off until we can there are fewer obstacles and unknowns.

This is extremely disappointing but it does add an extra month of backpacking to test gear and gauge what I can physically handle. We may try the trip at the end of my PCT adventure depending on when I get off the trail but it’s unclear seeing that we don’t want to miss the election in November or even the time leading up to it.