Greetings from Portland, Oregon where I’m at the start of my round the world adventure. Flying direct from Washington, DC on to New Zealand would have involved many very lengthy flights and was not something I was…
As I’ve been preparing for my big trip, what is on my packing list has probably caused the most amount of stress. Reducing my life to that of a 46 liter backpack and a small…
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 this past Friday, I’ve been feverishly…
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…
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 week’s time we climbed the Eiffel Tower,…
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 couple months and then the trip becomes…
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 trip, after deciding to actually do the…
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.…
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 I was particularly worried that this…
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 done the normal American path.…
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 surrounding hills, exploring with my camera.…
