And now, some introductions are in order...

Hello family and friends! And so begin the trials, adventures and tall tales from Germany. Neither of us has had a blog before. I guess it's because we've never had much of anything to blog about before. And just because we're in Germany now, far away from all our friends and family it doesn't mean our lives are that much more interesting. It just means we need to be more creative in how we communicate on the cheap with people. So that means that this blog, facebook and skype are our new friends. So, at the very least we hope that it keeps us all in contact with each other. At the most, we hope you are somewhat entertained by the happenings in our daily lives. Take care. We miss you all already. Tschuss!

Imagine pitching it all. For real. By that, I mean walking away from life as you know it, with all your friends, family, cars, house, pets, routines, favorite TV shows, job-- everything that makes you who you are--the works. And just, well, fall off the grid. Unplug from The Matrix. That's kind of what we're doing, (probably me more so than B, but whatever), but the whole concept is basically this: working without a net. That's kind of what we're doing. While we have the comparative benefits (bad word choice) of no house, kids or pets, it's still going out on a very long, thin limb. We're moving to Germany yet don't speak German, and aside from dashing through the Frankfurt airport on a connecting flight or being trapped inside a convention center for a couple days at a trade show, we've never spent any time here. While we didn't make this choice in haste (and we did a helluva lot of background research), it's still going to have a few twists and turns. This is our story.