Travel with me. Please.
I want to do this. Quit everything and travel around the world for a year. I know everyone wants to do that, but I really do. In a year when I finish my graduate program I could totally quit everything I’ve got going on right now and just go. That gives me a year to save up money and make plans. I know it’s not exactly spontaneous, but it’s better than nothing.
There are so many places I want to go, and it seems like there are never enough vacation days to do it all. And of course there’s never even kind of enough money. I’m always yearning to go go go. Somewhere, anywhere, everywhere. But it’s not very often that I actually go. So I want to do this.
Problem is, I don’t want to do it alone. I know I could. I could travel the world alone and it would be fine. But I don’t want to. I want to make plans and make decisions and experience it all with someone else (or more than one someone, that’s cool too). Wouldn’t it be fun if a small group of bloggers who became friends online all decided to get together and travel the world for a year? Even six months, I could handle six months. I think that’s a great story. I really want to do this!
So who’s with me? Who’s gonna do this with me?
(If you’re not a blogger friend but someone I know in real life, I’d love to do this with you too. Feel free to speak up.)
darlene Said,
July 3, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
i always wanted to do that … sigh … not in the cards for me but someday, oh yes someday … i have to plan years in advance once the teenager turns into grownup …
Jess Said,
July 3, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
I have always wanted to do that too. It has always seemed too overwhelming for my tiny mind. How much money would I have to save up, could I save enough, how would I get my bills paid off in time to go so I wouldn’t be abondoning them, where would I go, what would I do. If I had someone to help me figure that all out or to talk it out with, I would totally be in. It would be so good for me to get away and leave everything behind for a while. Put some perspective in my life.
Anna Said,
July 3, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
A few years ago two people did it and wrote about it for the L.A. Times. (Pre 2005, can’t find it online.) One of the dude’s friends did it too with his gf. They went places where there were horse races because he could freelance stories about it. I’d go but not sure the dude would love that.
Stacy Said,
July 3, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
I may not be able to travel around the world with you…but I would LOVE to read your travel stories and live vicariously through you. Good Luck!!
MrsTwink Said,
July 4, 2008 @ 10:48 am
You know - I had a friend that did this after she graduated college and she hasn’t been back to the U.S. since. And that was about 8 years ago.
I live vicariously through her because I know she hasn’t lived a life of regret. For me, I would love to do this but feel completely weighed down with obligation (although according to my friend, my “obligations are all in my head”).
I’d love to go with you but I definitely don’t have the balls… but I’d love to read all about it!
Emme Said,
July 5, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
You know I’m always itching to go go go….
Sooo, if I don’t have any babies by then, you can probably count me in. Seriously.
Dori Said,
July 6, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
It’s weird … I think I have actually sown my oats! I lived in Spain for a year after college, and I traveled around and lived in a tiled house with random Spanish roommates … and had a romantic jaunt in the South of France/North of Spain … and now I’m very settled in my staid New England life.
Which is not to say I wouldn’t welcome a sabbatical in a villa somewhere under a Tuscan/Mexican/Provencal sun somewhere. But the hectic travels? I’m shocked to say I think I’m over them. (Other than a cross-country road trip, which I still want to do someday.)
Aurora Said,
July 6, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
I think travelling and wanting to be on the move is a natural thing. We were all nomads to start, never staying in one place.
willikat Said,
July 7, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
man.that one is a total dream for me, and probably for william too. just running away from all the stuff built up, and seet he world. learn. have experiences beyond the fluorescent lights. i never studied abroad in college–my biggest regret. once the debt is paid off and before i theoretically have children, i ‘d love to. always a million reasons not to, but the reason TO DO is so damn compelling.
victoria winters Said,
July 18, 2008 @ 9:45 am
I WISH!