A long time since my last post. A number of things have conspired to slow down our exit...most of them positive. We've rescheduled notre sortie to September. This will improve the scenarios for our 2 most difficult efforts: work and renting our house.

Meanwhile on the phone situation...
Google Voice STILL does not have portability but there are others in this space now. 3jam has a cool offering as well. It's not free but close to it. 3jam offers portability so we can keep our home number and calls will be routed to Skype and/or voicemail.