Road trip ahead!

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Two days left to prepare for our first international trip together. Mexico!

We've been gathering important phrases ... Dónde está el baño ... Dos cervezas por favor ... so we should be set for anything.

Leo is a minimalist traveler "if we don't spend a lot, we can travel more", so we'll be sleeping in the car or on the beach most nights, with a hotel about every third night. I'm not usually quite that minimalist, but I enjoy traveling with Leo, and we had a blast on our road trip across the US last year for our honeymoon and over a long weekend across Nevada a few months ago (we had an amazing view of the stars in the middle of nowhere).

Laundry is done. Most of the perishable food is out of the fridge, so it's just about time to pack up!

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