It all started almost two decades ago.  I took a job in Dominica and got a taste for the international lifestyle and learned to drive on the left.  Then I met an Irishman.  We married 3 days after he emigrated to the US and were really happy in New York, raising a preschooler in our newly-purchased co-op.  Then one day he came home with a huge adventure:  Moving to Amsterdam.

We considered and thought and discussed.  Then we decided:  when life presents this type of opportunity you don't say no.  No matter how scary or personally inconvenient it may be, you don't say no.

So, here I sit, in our apartment which we've owned for just over a year, among several gigantic boxes, starting a blog to chronicle what's to begin in 3 days.  Our move to Amsterdam.