And we're off - Monday Aug the 22nd we drive to Houston in a rental car.  As we have lots of luggage, flying there was not an option...  We get additional weight for international travel but didn't want to pay for local travel.  The rental car was cheaper...lol
Our flight is overnight and we have business class seats.  I think on Lufthansa this means bed-like...  I will let you know in our first post from Moscow.  That may be late Tuesday or Wed morning...
Hope you enjoy following along on our trip.  If you log into a gmail address, you can officially follow and kibbutz as we travel...  Don't know how to say good-bye in Russian, so I will just say "see y'all later"