Add a few more days to the counter...

I imagine that as we travel to Europe and visit places we’ll be adding mostly anecdotes and pictures, but you’ll probably get to experience bad Dutch and Flemish as well.

It looks as though our trip has been pushed back two weeks based on the “unexpected expected delay” in my visa approval. As it stands now, my work visa paperwork is just now being received by the proper authorities in the Kingdom of Belgium. I’m told it can take two months, but a month is more like the norm. In the mean time, two companies are bidding on the account to ship our property across the pond. Whoever gets it will have an easy time of it, as we’ve packed for storage or sold most of our property. We’re only taking about a third of our previous possessions with us. In the mean time, we’ll be staying at my aunt and uncle’s house.

That didn’t preclude BTC from sending a ticket for me to go to Belgium for intensive training in August. Apparently this particular training was immediately relevant to the project I’m going to own there, and entirely inflexible. So on August 19th, away I go. I’ll be arriving directly in Portland on Friday, September 1st, so I’ll have a pretty busy week and a lot of frequent flier miles earned.

- T