6 continents; 27 countries; 70,000 miles

We've been back home (sort of) in the San Francisco Bay Area this week for the first time in a year, visiting friends and family and getting organized for the next leg of our trip. We even went to our house to get some things out of storage, although someone else is still living there until next month.

After visiting 27 countries on six continents (all but Antarctica) and travelling 70,000 miles around the world in the past year, we leave this morning for a month-long road trip across North America and back. It will be a separate trip, but also part of the same one as our trip around the world . We look forward to what we'll learn from seeing our home country and continent with eyes sensitized to the comparisons with other places we've been this past year. We'll be back home (until next time) at the end of July.