I always promised Fanette that if we ever got married, I'd learn to speak French. Well, no amount of books or classes have worked for me so far. The only language I've ever learned to any real degree was Spanish, and that I got from spending nearly a year traveling around central and south America. So we decided we'd spend a year in France while I learned the language. Our original plan involved Fanette getting a job, us getting an apartment and us trying to make a living while we were there. Then we ran in to a guy who told us about WWOOF. World Wide Opportunties on Organic Farms. They keep a list of organic farms looking for volunteers. Most farms offer free room and food in exchange for working on the farm about 5 days a week. This sounded like such a better deal for us. Its so difficult to try to move somewhere and buy all the things you need to survive for a year and get set up with a job and apartment. WWOOFing solved all of that, and was really in line with our lifestyle. Fanette and I have been eagerly learning more and more about organic living (well, I'll admit this is much more Fanette than me, but I'm along for the ride), so it seemed like WWOOFing was the perfect fit for us.
We spent 6 months in the US rehabbing a house so we could rent it out and have some money to get us from place to place. Now that we're finished with that, we're on to the next adventure.
We plan to make regular updates to this blog so our friends and families can see what we're up to while we're wandering around France.
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