We’re plotting a Big European Adventure of at least one year abroad — and today I’m showcasing our working list of “must see/do/taste/experience” for several countries we plan to visit …

Up first: Austria.

Here I am now, on the cusp of my 50th birthday (just 18 months away) and Toph is seriously eyeing his retirement in the next 5-10 years. We are closer than ever to what I have dreamed of for decades: a year of living abroad …

We went to England.

And I returned forever changed — and forever found.

Good travel does that.

For ten months, as I planned this Anglophilian dream of a trip, my family had been joking that my husband would be returning from our England vacation …