Dear Montreal, thank you for a great sendoff last night and this past week. I’m going to miss you all a lot. Conor and I are heading to the airport in an hour to fly to Detroit, then L.A., and then by 6:30am on Sunday we’ll be in Sydney, Australia where his parents are picking us up. The trip takes about 24 hours with stopovers, but Saturday disappears in the time lines, and starting Sunday it will be summer.

I’m meeting his family for the first time and we’ll be spending the holidays them them, hanging out at his parents’ place in the country and then traveling around for a while. I’ve got a work visa and will probably have to look for work wherever we end up staying after that. We have a return ticket for 3 months from now, in early March, but it’s flexible.

I promise to post lots of photos and updates on this blog, so regular readers, it’ll be the same as usual, plus I’ll be your Australian correspondent/tour guide now too. Friends and family, you’ll have the pleasure of watching me turn horribly red and flaky in the abnormally-early summer sun.

Thanks for reading guys, wish us a safe trip, and we’ll talk again on Sunday!

xo

-T