We’ve put together a very rough to-do list of things we need to accomplish over the next 6 months. Some of these are things that we can start doing now (and have been!) and some of these will need to…
6 Months From Now
6 months from now will be another Sunday. I’ll wake up in my old childhood bedroom at my parent’s house. I’ll go into the family room and lay down on the love seat, but Tucker won’t join me to cuddle…
Welcome to Detroit!
When most people hear about Detroit, what are the first thoughts that come to mind? For many, it will be of broken and burnt out buildings, unsavory characters, and a consistent ranking of one of the most dangerous cities in…
Things Don’t Matter: Learning this Lesson the Hard Way
As part of the process for preparing to travel for 1-2 years, we have been decluttering and getting rid of a lot of our stuff. We currently live in a studio apartment, and have a small storage space in the…
Leaving a Job I Love
One of the more common reasons I hear for why people take time off to travel is because they are unhappy with their job. The routine days, drab cubicle, unfulfilling work, annoying coworkers – if I had all of that…
A Ceilidh for our first goodbye
Sotherland is a unique name. It’s origins are Scotish, which is not so unique in itself. There’s a region in Scotland with the same name and plenty of others around the world who sign their credit card slips the same…
91 Weeks to Go
A month or so ago, I made a countdown sheet – a separate square for each week, with a different picture from around the world and a countdown of how many weeks we have left before we leave. As of…
Small, cheap, and slightly ghetto
We moved last month to a new apartment. Our lease was up at our previous apartment, and we knew we had about 2 years before we were going to leave for our trip. Neither of us loved our old apartment…
Telling my family
We came to our hometown this weekend for a few reasons. Whenever possible, we try to combine visits with both families and friends in one trip. This weekend, it was my brother-in-law’s birthday, my sister’s visit home before starting her…
The Decision
I love to travel. Second to actually traveling is reading about other’s travels. Before we started planning our RTW trip, I had been reading numerous blogs on other’s trips. After mentioning it to Jon over and over and over again,…