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Mar 27, 2008

Coming Soon ...

Push: one couple's brave attempt to travel abroad for two months with a baby.

When my friends and family heard that I planned to spend my paternity leave traveling 10,000 miles with my wife and 11-month-old, some called me crazy. Some called me stupid. Others just stopped calling. But away we went—and now, you're coming with us.

Catch up with Sarah, Hannah (aka the kid born on the floor), and me as the three of us fumble our way across Southeast Asia and Australia, from the jungles of Vietnam, to a strange island off the Great Barrier Reef seemingly populated only by Japanese schoolgirls, to the sickest bathroom in Thailand. Watch me absent-mindedly feed my baby a Thai chile pepper! Sleep with us in our coffin bed in a hostel in Tasmania! Witness the many challenges of Vietnamese diapers! Check back in this space for the next generation of Push. The slog continues!

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Mar 27, 2008 02:07 pm
 Posted by  Anonymous

Yeah! This is so exciting! PUSH lives!

Mar 27, 2008 04:38 pm
 Posted by  Anonymous

YES! Can't wait!

Mar 28, 2008 09:32 am
 Posted by  Anonymous

Yay!!! Can't wait!

Mar 28, 2008 03:17 pm
 Posted by  Anonymous

I haven't commented on the other entries, although I was glued to my refresh button all day for the next entry even though I knew it wouldn't be for a couple of days. But, knowing that there is more to come all I can say is YEAH... BRING IT ON BABY!!! FANTASTIC!

Mar 30, 2008 06:39 am
 Posted by  Anonymous

Excellent! This blog was fabulous and I am thrilled it is continuing! Mr. Ruby -- you should write a book based on these posts! Thanks so much for sharing all these intimate details and stories!

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About Push

The continuing adventures of The Closer, aka Chicago's deputy dining editor and humor columnist Jeff Ruby. After chronicling his wife's pregnancy and eventual delivery on a Hyde Park floor in gory detail, Ruby fast-forwards a year to his paternity leave, during which his threesome inexplicably decided to travel 10,000 miles away. Again, Push is more slog than blog, since the events aren't happening in real time, but rather a flashback to three people fumbling their way from the jungles of Vietnam to a strange island off the Great Barrier Reef seemingly populated only by Japanese schoolgirls to the sickest bathroom in Thailand. And again, nothing is omitted.

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