Everything I’m bringing on the trip It’s crazy to think I will be leaving DC in just 15 days, but it is in fact very real. Since leaving my job of the last 8 years…

It has been a wild ride, but today I am leaving the company I have worked with for the past 8+ years. As I mentioned in my previous post about telling my boss I was…

Washington, D.C. has been my home for the last four years. It is a wonderful place I’d recommend to anyone looking for a moderately large city with great nightlife, culture, food, and fitness options. Like…

People are so tiny from this height Two years ago, on my trip to Europe with my two best friends, we made it our mission to climb as many tall buildings as possible. In one…

Eilean Donan castle in the Scottish Highlands Ok here is the tentative plan for my round the world trip. As it stands, I have a good idea what I will be doing for the first…

Solo sailing for me from now on Today I quit my job at the best company I have ever worked for. It was probably the second hardest decision I had to make in planning this…

It is official. I am traveling the world for a year. Today I brought all of the hand-wringing and procrastinating to an end by buying my first one-way ticket on my round the world tour.…

Sacre Couer sunset from our hotel My friends and I got majorly lucky upon our arrival in Paris in May 2012. We hadn’t made any plans for housing like the rest of our trip, but…

Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey I was a late bloomer. My passion to travel didn’t become fully realized until late into my twenties – by the time society would say is too late. I had…

Having fun with perspective in SF I was in the San Francisco Bay Area for work in the fall of 2013. I spent every waking moment that I wasn’t working out in the city, and…