Where are we now?


View Where are we now? in a larger map Jo, Annie, Miles and I are living in Northport, Alabama and working at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. We've been glad to be in one place for a bit after what appeared to be semi-permanently traveling (in actuality for a period of 2.5 years).We started this blog to catalogue some of the adventures when Jo and I were sequentially conducting our dissertation research in India and Brazil. While we've fallen off the blogging bandwagon somewhat during recent trips to Brazil, we're trying to pick it up again now that we're back in India!


Monday, June 4, 2012

364 days of bliss

Our anniversaries often have a way of, well, sucking. In fact, it’s become kind of a tradition. Here’s a run-down of our anniversaries so far:

First—Spent sleeping on a stone bench in the rain outside of the (closed) airport in Florence, Italy

Second—Spent apart; Dave in Brazil and Jo in India

Third—Air conditioning broke in 90+ degree heat in St. Louis, and half of us got food poisoning from bad chicken nachos in the close quarters of a cross-country RV trip with Dave’s parents

Fourth—locked out of our lovely cabin in an orchid farm in Kalimpong, India, after the key broke in the door; had to climb through the window to get inside with me 6 months pregnant

And finally we come to our fifth, which was just last weekend. It was the day after our return to the settlement from Belem, which was itself a little tough because we had had such a nice trip. As befits our anniversary trend, we awoke the morning to a blanket of ants invading our house. Then the toilet clogged.

As Dave likes to observe, we’ve gotta pay for 364 days of marital bliss with one crappy day every once in a while.

1 comment:

herding tapeworms said...

ants?? invading? unacceptable.