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Holy shit we are actually going. Well at least we’re going to Thailand for awhile!
Two tickets to Thailand $665.00 a person. We leave 10/26 at 1:17 AM (so really 10/27) arrive on 10/27 at 12:30 in the afternoon.
I feel really at peace with this right now. I’m very calm about it. The pieces of this [...]

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Schedule

The account manager in me went to work this morning and I began creating this schedule that will inevitably be very much of an evolution but it helps me to get this all on paper at one time.
So I’ve posted it here to remind myself of all the wonderful things we need to do before [...]

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Itinerary

Well we’ve FINALLY made some decisions!!
Here is our “itinerary”:
Thailand/Laos/Cambodia/Vietnam/maybe China (SE)/Maybe Indonesia (like Bali!!)/Maybe Malaysia
4 months (Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb)

India
2 months (March/April)

Jordan/Israel/Egypt
2 months (May/June)

Turkey
1 month (July)
Then the wedding is in Greece in August/September so we’ll be in the right location.
Then we will go up through Eastern Europe then back through to Spain into Morocco and probably leave from [...]

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26

I have 26 weekends of working at Jillians. Looking at it in terms on weekends makes it easier for me to handle. No need to point out that its really 2 – 3 times that much because I actually work more then once during those weekends.  I’ll just count them as complete chunks to make [...]

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Crazy-Town-USA

So I just realized that I will have saved by tomorrow almost $4,000….which in my mind is a TON of money. That is the most amount of money I have ever saved up at one time! I’m not sure what that says about me…..? But the bad news is that I am still $2,750 short. [...]

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Considerations

Should we start in Thailand or New Zealand?
New Zealand is very expensive to get to and very expensive when you are there. Thailand is not either one of those things.
Things are the things that I think about on a daily basis. My brain is whirring.

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I will tell you that I run the numbers on a daily basis. The task of saving $2,000 dollars a month for the next 7 months is daunting – to say the least.
I just tallied up the amount of money I spent on food this week alone and it was over $86 dollars! That to [...]

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I finally (after almost a month of looking) landed a part time job. I need this job in order to earn the extra $2K a month to finance the trip, but dam this is going to be hard. Yesterday I got to work at 8:15 left at 5:45 went to Jillian’s (my new gig) and [...]

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