We are about 10 months of being abroad now and our thoughts for the past little while have been shifting towards home. I think that a combination of Christmas, so long on the road and all the $$ we are spending has led to that :) I think we are both pretty comfortable that we have seen lots and experienced lots on this trip and that soon will be the right time to come home and begin the next trip of sorts....
On January 7th we fly from Bangkok to Tokyo for a week with Paula's friends Tak and Jenny. Then on January 14th we fly from Tokyo to Vancouver with a few hour stop in Portland, Oregon (does that mean I can add USA on our list of countries?). I think we arrive back in Vancouver at 11:15 January 14th, 10 months and 10 days after leaving. Seems like yesterday!
After some lengthy thought on the matter, we have decided to relocate our Canadian selves from Vancouver to Toronto around the 1st of February. For quite a while now we have both thought that we need to be closer to our families and the 'freshness' of coming home after this trip makes for a good opportunity to do just that. Of course there is the cold and there is the Leaf's, but we are prepared to cope with both of them :)
I'm going to be heading back into the Nerd line of work, looking to restart my career in the Toronto market. Paula is going to be going to work with her friend Morag at Yummy Stuff. We are both pretty excited!
We will be initially looking for a matchbox sized apartment to live in until we can get ourselves back on our feet and decide what that will become. We have definitely learned how to live on small amounts of material goods over the past year....
That's our plan so far :)
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