Mr. Sulu, set a course…for home.

Old Travelogue, Prague 1 Minute

Well, Indi and I sat down tonight and not only crunched the numbers for what we need to make it as long as we can in Europe, but what we’ll need to restock when we get home.  Remember, we sold EVERYTHING when we left (from the furniture to our clothes to our bedsheets) and we need to have money for clothes, furniture, apartment deposits, first month’s rent, all that fun stuff to get re-established in the world.

 

ALL that being said, we have booked flight tickets home.  We are flying into Chicago on February 18th.  We will meet up with Nikki and Brad and spend the weekend in the Windy City, and then come back to Tulsa on Sunday, February 21st.
We are saddened that we will miss out on so much that we wanted to see and are coming home so early.  But we have seen many magnificent things and met many wonderful people.  We are much better travelers now than we were when we started in April.  This is not the end;  it is simply the next phase.  And we have Ireland, Britain, and Wales to go yet!
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Rhys Martin is an author and photographer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. His love of travel was awakened in 2009 when he sold all of his possessions and left the country. For ten months, he lived out of a backpack and explored southeast Asia and Europe. When he returned home, it was with fresh eyes for his home state. As he drove the back roads of Oklahoma, Rhys discovered the significance of historic Route 66 to the greater American story. He has traveled all 2,448 miles of the Mother Road and continues to seek out the quiet Main Streets of the Midwest. Rhys's travel writing and photography has been featured in numerous publications, including Tulsa People Magazine, This Land Press, ROUTE Magazine, Nimrod Journal, The Oklahoman and Tulsa World. He wrote the book Lost Restaurants of Tulsa, which features the stories of nearly 50 iconic eating establishments from the city's past. He has also been a contributing author to multiple Route 66-based travel and history books. Rhys is the President of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association and serves on multiple boards and commissions related to the Mother Road and its upcoming Centennial in 2026. He loves to connect with people and share his experiences.

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