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2017 In the Rear View  Mirror: If there was ever a momentous year in the lives of two people, this was it.  Not necessarily the best year ever because we've had lots of great years filled with great events.  Not necessarily the biggest change because we had some whoppers in the past.  But in the sense of unexpected life altering, direction changing, out of character, "Where did that come from?", this was it.  On January 1 2016 this whole thing was just a niggle in the back of our minds.  Something we had discussed and looked at casually, but mostly dismissed.  It was something really neat, like a balloon flight across the Atlantic, or a trip to Europe.  One of those things that other people do but not us.  We get up, drink a pot of coffee, work in the yard, watch Fox, go to bed,wake up and repeat.  Maybe not quite that bad, but any adventure, especially travel, was pre-planned, pre-paid, and often pre-empted by something or someone....