How do you plan a year long trip? Great question and we are not quite sure if we know how either…although we have figured out a few things along the way! One-Way Tickets We bought one-way tickets to Taipei, Taiwan leaving on August 16, 2016! We considered buying a RTW plane ticket, but there are so many rules and restrictions you have to follow. Since we did not want to plan our route completely before leaving and we wanted the…
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho I quit my job today. It was a good job; I was paid well, I learned a lot, I worked with cool people on challenging problems, I grew as a person, as a software developer and, for the most part, I had the freedom to come into work and do whatever interested me….
Recently I quit my job. I didn’t want to do it. Absolutely zero interest. This was the thing that I was dreading the most. I wish there was a way to stay gainfully employed at my company and travel the world all at the same time, but sadly this was not an option. My 9 to 5 Gig This job has been my first “real” job out of college. I have been challenged daily over the past three years and…
A RTW trip has been a dream of ours for the past several years. It does seem slightly crazy (even to us) to leave our careers and “normal” life for an unconventional one, but it also seems crazy to look back on your life and have regrets. While there is never a great time to drop everything to travel for a year we think that there is no better time than right now. The Backstory I (Shelby) always dreamed that…