Three days until the adventure starts.

It is Saturday morning in the valley, the sun is out and all the leaves have fallen, blowing across the street like packing peanuts. The weather calls for three nice days, late fall days holding on its last string. I feel like Mother Nature is going to give me a nice departure weather. The last of the packing will be done today and Sunday.

I will travel to Chicago on Monday the 7th, stay over night with a friend and his soon to be wife. I will take a Amtrak train from La Crosse WI to Union Station in downtown Chicago. I love taking the train and it will be nice to see some flat land.

The feeling of leaving a place that you dearly love, to a place that you wish you could live has mixed emotions. The change of places keeps me fresh in my mind, body and sprit. Going to the Philippines and seeing the way people live with little and no money opens my eyes to the world we live in.

Let the adventure begin!!