So I know I’m not going to Africa anymore but I did plan to, just about a few months ago. Google wasn’t very helpful, for once, because there simply isn’t enough information for job seekers wanting to relocate to Africa, or people who want to live there, for longer than two weeks in a safari resort!

So we did a hell lot of research about which countries are worth heading to for a good life without effectively striking a match to my wallet. And believe you me, you can do that in Africa, the Africa of rib-stickin’ out infants and giraffes.

Being sort of a safe person, I was also somewhat concerned about the safety of my booty (as Miss United States just said on Miss Congeniality 2) (yea, I multi-task sometimes). As a journalist, if a newspaper wanted me to stake out for a few days in the middle of a war in Sierra Leone, I’d be there – grit, gumption, and notepad. But considering I was also gonna take my bubblegum with me on this trip, I didn’t want to be somewhere I’d be lying flat on the ground half the time.

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This post should have been written about a month and half ago.

But I love the fact that Wordpress allows me to back date my post, so I’m gonna back date it anyway. So when did I really write it? Go figure!

For two months now, Pratik and I have had a growing sense of urgency about our impending departure from this gray and green country. Have I told you Silicon Valley is Gray. And Green. Except on the weekends when we escape to the Pacific, life drifts by day after day in different shades of gray and green.

The concrete, the buildings, the mountains in the distance, the freeways, the monotonous colors of business suits.. and maple trees topped in sparse green.

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