The journey to France
Our stepped-up journey began early on the morning of December 1st, 2020. Having spent the night before at the Grand Hilton SFO, we arrived at the terminal armed with a mountain of luggage. It had been a whirl wind of a week between receiving our Visa’s…
Our Story -
Making that decision to move to a new country!
As I write this it has been almost five years to the day that our Journey began. Five years filled with twists and turns, a great amount of hard work, some fleeing and returning, and an enormous amount of waiting patiently, or not so patiently as the case may be. I am Mark and my Husband is Phillip, the Goffengels, a combination of our two last names Goff/Engel. Or as a dear friend once told us… You know, the fifth house at Hogwarts... the Gay one! Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Gryffindor, Goffengel, and Ravenclaw. Makes me smile every time! We are from the Wine Country of Northern California in the United States. Our Great Adventure started in late 2015,
and yet truly began in March of 2009…