Just as a reminder – this blog started as a TRAVEL blog, albeit one we only posted to every few years.  Then we started our silly cooking project, and given that we make dinner a lot more often than we visit other continents, that kind of took over.  But we’ve still used it for major trips, like Iceland and Japan.

And hoooo boy is this summer a major trip.

Like much of our travel, it started with a conference for Leigh, this time in Geneva.   So we planned a nice two week vacation across Switzerland.  And also Liechtenstein.  Briefly. (Is there any other way to visit Liechtenstein?)

And then the field service manager for my company became a daddy and took extended leave.  As a result, the rest of us pitched in to take up the slack.  The straw I drew was (checks notes) three weeks in Belgium  Wow.  And they happened to fall on the exact three weeks before our Switzerland trip.  The plan is now Dan is going to Europe for five weeks and Leigh is turning up 60% of the way through.  Sure, why not?

But wait – there’s more.  Apparently we have a POTENTIAL customer who would also like a site visit… in Istanbul.  And apparently since Istanbul is MUCH closer to Belgium than it is to Vancouver^{[citation needed]} , I would be leaving my fellow installer behind and flying to Constantinople Istanbul to meet with them.

And that’s the trip – Belgium->Turkey->Belgium->Switzerland->Liechtenstein->Switzerland.

Wait – how does one GET from Belgium to Switzerland?

The trip is Belgium->Turkey->Belgium->France->Switzerland->Liechtenstein->Switzerland.

This is going to be fun and I am going to die.