Leaving home

This post begins a new direction for this blog and a new direction for myself. Since my last post, way back in May, almost everything in my life has changed. My husband, Ted,  was offered a job in Singapore, and sight unseen we made the difficult decision to uproot ourselves from our very comfortable, well known and much loved life and trek across the world to new surroundings.

While the choice to make this huge change was initially difficult, it seemed to us that if there was ever a good time to purge all our belongings and leave home for adventures, now was most definitely the time.  Our children are young adults, more or less launched into their own lives, we don’t yet have grandchildren on the horizon, and we are both young enough and fit enough to want to see a little more of the world. So, we sold our house, (actually sold it at one of our garage sales, but that’s another story.), quit our jobs, sold or gave away most of our belongings (we are talking EVERYTHING), found our cats a new home and moved temporarily to Whidbey Island to stay with family until it was time to move.

Ebey’s Prairie, Whidbey Island with Mount Baker in the background

Ted left a little over a month ago and I have stayed behind tidying up loose ends, digitizing photos and documents as much as possible, finishing up the Great Purge of belongings and spending time with my family, which has been the best part of this huge change so far. My flight leaves in about 48 hours now, many good-byes have been said already, more to come in the next few days.

So, now this blog, which was formerly dedicated to my work as a health coach, yoga and pilates teacher and perpetual student, will be dedicated to the experiences we have while we learn to thrive in our new surroundings.

I’m hoping I will have the chance to continue teaching, continue learning, and sharing with all of you in a way that makes a positive difference to you.

To all of you with whom I didn’t get to have a final, in-person good-bye know that it wasn’t from lack of affection on my part or lack of importance, but merely that time got away from me, slipped by so quickly I almost couldn’t keep up. I hope all of you will find your way to parts unknown too and we can meet there to share our adventures.