With a job like mine you’ve got to be one step away from having a bag packed. My goal this weekend was actually to unpack from our holiday travels. In the end I was packing instead. At around 5pm on Friday the possibility of me going to DRC came up as a possibility, and by 7pm I had a flight booked for Monday afternoon and schedule to get my visa and extra passport pages on Monday morning.

I’ll be maintaining the blog in the field thanks to posts written this last weekend and support from Michael and David, as James is gearing up for his final two weeks before his big exam.

This however means that given our schedules, both our 2010 goals and our current net worth will have to go on hold to make room for exams and travels to the edged of the world. We’ll take time to do both when I’m back and James is done with his exam.

I’ll see if I can come up with any finance related posts when I’m out in deepest darkest Africa. In the mean time you can check out me and a baby lion on my last trip to Zimbabwe. You are also free to follow along at my personal blog – Where is Miel.

Cheers,

Miel

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