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  It is 7:00 am and all I want to do is sleep.   Less than 48 hours have passed since I left Armenia, hopping into a marshrutka to Tbilisi on just four hours of sleep after a crazy last night out in Yerevan.  I am physically and mentally exhausted and I have been fighting […]

  Greetings from Azerbaijan!   The longer I travel, the more quickly these monthly update posts seem to come. I swear I was just writing about being on the road eight months and, here I am, already writing about nine. I’ve gotten gushy and emotional quite a bit over the last few months, talking about

  I am supposed to be in Turkmenistan right now. Instead I am in Turkey.   According to my original itinerary – or at least the itinerary that existed on August 30, 2011 when I hopped on a flight to Helsinki – I should be marking my eight months of traveling while camping somewhere in

I have made no secret of the fact that I am a major planner – I like to know where I am going and what is coming up. I like to have plans. But I am also open to being flexible. And when opportunities arise or inclinations change, I want to be open to going

I originally posted the following on the morning of my departure – August 30, 2011 (also my 35th birthday!).  I am sharing again today in connection with Meet, Plan, Go!‘s 3rd anniversary celebration and to promote a limited time discount on their Career Break Basic Training online course.   It has been about two years

As you read this, I will hopefully be sailing along in the middle of the Black Sea to my next destination – Batumi, Georgia! I say hopefully because the ferry I am taking is notoriously unreliable so I can only hope that we actually set sail on time. Regardless, I have hit the six month

Now that I have been on the road almost six months, I thought I would take a look back at my original packing list and share how it has held up.   What have I tossed and what have I replaced?   Here is the packing list I posted back in August as I prepared

While I have written update posts at monthly intervals of this trip, as I began my second week in Kiev, Ukraine, I realized that I hit two other milestones almost simultaneously: I spent almost exactly $10,000 while traveling almost exactly 15,000 miles.   $10,002.28 and 15,167 miles to be exact.   To some of you,

You may remember back in November, I participated in BootsnAll’s 30 Days of Indie Travel Challenge. I almost made it through the entire month, posting once a day based on the prompt for that day. Well, BootsnAll has started a new project – the 2012 Indie Travel Challenge, which involves writing one post each week