Dan did say "farewell" and then kept popping back up from time to time. I don't think the "farewell" was intended as "forever." He was traveling and posted some pics.
Just to bring up to speed, sorta, there was a dust up about the proper sort of shoe laces that Apostolics are supposed to wear (no kidding, shoe laces and tie knots!). Dan and his antagonist apparently shared an opinion of each other that I missed and both are currently on that sabbatical known as the: