Moving Out and On Our Way

We are on our way to Rangpur, Bangladesh from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. With Alison having the opportunity to run the operational day to day activities of her nutrition research study for her PhD at Johns Hopkins and Jeremy having a position also with the university to perform some process reliability analysis on the university research organization there, we are making this big international move.

Bangladesh is the most densely populated nation (excepting city-states) on the planet, and one of the poorest in Asia. An extremely fertile land that suffers from torrential flooding and periodic cyclones, Bangladesh has made great strides towards development in the past couple decades. The work we are doing has the potential to make a small step to improve the health of families there, something that we take for granted in the United States.

Now, as of July 25th, we packed our house, put our things into storage, and set out on a drive across half of the United States from Maryland to Texas. Ezra did great in the car on the way down, alternatively napping and playing, much better than Alison and I for the most part.

We will actually leave the US on August 14th and arrive in Bangladesh on the 16th after about 26 hours of flights and layovers luckily having only one stop in Dubai.

We will use this blog to post pictures, video, and stories about our time there. Check back from time to time or subscribe to the entries via email or RSS feed.