Well, we are almost ready to hit the road. We are spending our last evening this year having a quiet supper with good friends before we engage in some furious stuffing… I mean packing. We are leaving for the airport tomorrow afternoon. I just shut down our office and put up all the “I am away” signs. lets hope everything is there when I get back. 

We are only taking one suitcase each and we have to travel with less than 40 pounds to ensure that we don’t get hit with excess weight charges on some of our in-India flights. It is a challenge because we will be in London in winter weather, it is currently 39 degrees in Kerala India where we land but around 0 degrees by the time we get to the Himalayas. So we have a lot of layers and we hope for the best.