One way ticket to San Francisco please...

It was with mixed feelings that we boarded our flight to San Francisco yesterday. While we're SUPER excited for all the adventures our future has to hold, we will certainly miss all of our wonderful family and friends in Aus and NZ. 

Departing from Melbourne airport 

We've been overwhelmed by all the farewells and goodlucks over the past little while. The gatherings, the hugs, the messages, the cards and the trees! There was even a last minute message from Owlie Mc Owlerson!

Bye Owlie and the Healthy Communities Team! (Team "mascot" at Cat's work) 

 

 

The "farewell tree" Cat's work friends created which makes scientifically correct comparisions between Wyndham and US living.  Many cats were featured. 

 

 

Cat and Richard out on a country drive to find a starting point for their "Travel Bug" to be placed in a Geocache in San Francisco (for a future post)

It's also relieving to be done leaving. There are still more things to be sorted in Melbourne, a car to be sold, tax affairs to be submitted and hopefully a bond to be returned, but it was a lot of work to get to this point. The rented 4 level house is empty and clean, many things sold and some stored, 22 boxes are already en route and 5 suit cases are in the hold below us (the plan was to travel light I'm not sure what happened but it could have been much worse). It's done now and there is excitement ahead.