T minus.....

It is 12:30 PM and I am sitting in my kitchen recalling how the countdown for leaving to France had began with X number of months, which eventually rolled around to X number of weeks, which led to X number of days, and recently it had turned to corner to X number of hours (5). At this point everything I could do to prepare had been done (I.E. email, language, luggage etc.), and the only thing left for me to do in the United States is to say a few last goodbyes and board three planes (Eugene to Portland, Portland to Minneapolis and then Minneapolis to Paris).