Philip Fibiger

Selling my motorcycle didn’t really faze me, neither did removing all our books from our bookshelves and packing them. It was taking our artwork and mirrors off the walls and packing them up is the action that really crystallized that we’re leaving LA, and soon. Our place went from looking like a home to looking like an empty apartment very quickly.

Emily got a Charlotte Newcombe dissertation fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and we decided that it was time to leave LA. We’re going to spend a month driving around the United States, meandering back toward New York State, then we’ll settle into my parents summer place in Newcomb for 6-7 months while we see what happens with the academic job market. I’m going to try to do a little consulting and see what I can get started. After the job hunting process ends for Em in the spring we’ll hopefully go to Europe for a month and then figure out where we go from there.

We’ve got a lot more information about our route at philandemily.com, and we’ll update photos and a travel log there as well. If you have any suggestions for things we shouldn’t miss on our trip or have a floor we can crash on, please drop one of us a line.