We got into London yesterday and had a lovely welcome-back family dinner last night. Molly’s travels continue (prepare yourself, Scotland!) for another two weeks, but Tara is packing up things here and returns to the States next week.

We have now ridden in what feels like every possible type of train: on the Eurostar, on many varieties of regular trains, in a sleeping-car, on high-speed trains, on little tiny local trains, on a double-decker train… through fields, mountains, cities, and towns, by rivers and through tunnels.

It’s been an exciting, roving, fun, and thought-provoking adventure: traveling through foreign countries, staying with strangers, making friends, taking care of ourselves, observing and exploring and experiencing. This blog has been a rather anemic representation of what we’ve done, but as we return to a more normal pattern the next few weeks, we’ll do our best to flesh things out with all the stories, details, and photos!

For our route, check out our updated Googlemap (link in the upper right-hand corner of the blog).