Preparation

The tickets are bought. It finally hit me that I'll traveling "the world" in less than two months. The anticipation is almost unbearable. As excited as I am, I'm not rushing these few months until our long-awaited departure. The preparation period is crucial to making any trip. Although it's important to leave a spontaneous element to a trip, it is essential to have somewhat of a plan. Planning a trip can be stressful. Being a first timer at it, I'm trying to organize myself. I'm already a very organized person, but this as proven to be more difficult because there's just so much to do. I find that, in anticipation, I'm getting stressed because I want all the logistics worked out, but it all takes time. Yet, little by little we're getting everything booked and scheduled.

Although stressful at times, I find it fun figuring everything out--one thing leads to another. After booking the plane tickets, my friend and I realized that just because we did that doesn't mean that we're set and ready to go. That led to a myriad of other things we had to figure out: bus tickets to get to the airport, hostels that are near the destinations we want to see, train passes, booking hostels, looking up places we want to go in the local areas we're going to, restaurants, transportation...the list goes on.

This will be the first blog of a book of more blogs to come. This will serve to update and share with others the amazing things I see, the amazing things I experience on the journey of a lifetime!