The list of things we have to do before even boarding our flight this fall is long and daunting. Orin and I are no longer twenty and without many obligations. While we have rented our house (a stroke of luck) and have friends in Turkey helping with arrangements, we have hundreds of things to do over the next weeks. A sampling: obtain 20 passport-sized pictures of each of us for Turkish authorities, rent a house, prep the furnace for the fall, make sure all bills can be paid online, get six months of flea potion for the dog, prepare our classes, clean the house (REALLY clean it), fix the thousand nagging doors, fans, lightbulbs, windows that tend to malfunction in an old house, suspend the subscriptions, pay for the kids' school (YIKES), get prescriptions refilled, apply for visas, learn Turkish (at least a little), pack our clothes, deliver Mothra to Maya in Huntsville, buy six months of dog and cat food, pack books and teaching files, BUY AIRPLANE TICKETS (oh, that!), get electrical converters, obtain school transcripts for Frances and Ray, photocopy our diplomas (honestly...) and (see ABOVE) renew Ray's passport. Well, at least we can scratch "take cute photograph" off the list...