July 2, 2011
‘Til the fat lady sings.
The last few weeks have been full of goodbyes and going away parties before my 'round the world travels. It started when Heather visited my work to drop off a sweatshirt I'd left behind and some mail that didn't get forwarded. She was going out of...
June 29, 2011
And this came on the radio.
I sometimes think the radio speaks to me. Like when I'm driving on the highway and in a good mood and all of a sudden Like a Prayer or Living on a Prayer comes on and I open all my windows and drive past my...
June 26, 2011
On purging – Part III
After cleaning out everything from the bedroom at my mom's house it was time to tackle the attic. That's where the real treasures were: the stuff I threw into boxes after high school and after college like those piles of text books and papers I...
June 23, 2011
Fortunes in my favor.
Over the last two days the fortune cookie gods have been very reassuring...
June 17, 2011
How I didn’t save for my ’round the world trip.
I hate when people ask me how long I've been saving for my around the world trip. It's not their fault, it's just one of many in a string of basic questions to ask when you've found out that someone has quit their job to...
June 16, 2011
in food, RTW Preparation
My financial panther doesn’t suck.
When my mutual funds were down by $6,000 I spent a lot of time complaining that my financial panther sucks. He told me that now that I've not only recouped that money but have also gained about $4,000 that I need to post something nice about...
March 31, 2011
On purging – Part II
Last year I started the massive project of sorting through my life. As I'm getting ready to leave for a year to travel I don't want to leave a mess and certainly don't want to come back to one. I still have so much stuff...
February 28, 2011
I quit my job to travel the world!
I know I've hinted many times that my 30s are going to rock. And that I have big, huge, monumental, fantastically awesome plans. And now that everything is starting to come together and is pretty much officially official I can now announce it to the...
September 15, 2010
Meet, plan, go go go!
So I went to an event last night called Meet, Plan, Go. It was a national speaking event for people who are thinking of taking a career break to travel. Remember how I said I had big plans for my thirties? Yeah...