Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Dave finally shaved his beard off!! For those who haven’t had the pleasure of seeing Dave for a while, he had gotten a little too…Yeti…for me. He had decided not to shave during the trip to Mongolia, partly for fun, but partly because we were in the middle of nowhere and he would have had to shave with icy water from glacial streams.

At first, I thought he looked quite handsome with his rugged not-yet-beard:

And even when he got to the point when it really was a beard, I didn’t mind it too much. But that was when I thought he would shave it once we got to Hawaii. But the experiment continued. I thought, “No problem, he’ll shave it as soon as we get home.” But Dave wanted to show it to our friends to see their reaction.

Almost three weeks after we got home, he finally shaved it (he wanted to wait until we saw our friends Andy and Darcie in Maine, which we did this past weekend).

Here are the before and after shots:

Dave the Rough (Before)

Dave the Smooth (After)

HOORAY! Dave’s face is back!

– Meredith

*Too obscure a musical theatre reference? How about, “Ding Dong the Beard is Dead”? The problem with that one is that while more people know The Wizard of Oz than they do Bye Bye Birdie, it’s just not as clever a word play. Thus, I chose to title this post “Bye Bye Beardie!”