Getting ready to leave

We leave Wednesday for Austria and Italy, and while I'm incredibly excited, we're less prepared than usual. I'm spending the weekend printing out all of our trip information, trying to sort out train schedules and such, and starting to pack. I feel a shopping trip coming on, too. Given the heat in Atlanta, I haven't even started thinking about fall clothing, but it will be considerably cooler where we're going, so that sounds like a good excuse for a little early fall shopping.

Scott has been working a lot of overtime lately, and he's working today, so I'm trying to get a few things started for us while he tries to wrap up a major project before we go.

We weren't as diligent as we'd hoped in learning a little German before we go, so that may be how we spend our time in flight.

Look for more updates as we begin our latest journey!

Setting Our Itinerary

We're getting closer to locking in our trip to Austria in September. We've decided on traveling the first half of the month - approximately 10 days sometime between 9/1 and 9/15. While there, we'll visit Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria as well as Bolzano, Italy (see photo above) with most of our time in the Vienna and either Innsbruck or Bolzano.

Because Austria is so close to so many other European countries, we'll likely do a bit of country-hopping while we're there. Possibilities include Slovakia, Hungary and Germany. Each are within an hour and a half of the Austrian cities we'll visit. But, we'll play that by ear as our schedules and energy levels permit.

I guess we better start learning some German.