The Eat Pray Love... Travel Some More Tour

 It's been almost 2 years since I blogged...shame on me.  I didn't exactly make it to Haiti for a year...but that's alright...life happens...and that's where I am today...happening to dust off a 2 year writers block and who knows what else in the process.

Has anyone ever really thought about "the travel bug"?  I mean... what does it really look like?  Do I WANT to know what a bug that bit me or is crawling under my skin looks like.  All I know is it happened...and its effects don't ever seem to wear off for me.  I think of TRAVEL daily like a lovesick junior higher, like I'm an addict waiting for my next high, like its that time of the month and if I don't get chocolate or wine someone will have to pay for it...desire to travel. 

So I'm enjoying my current job...working with international students...its like traveling without leaving.  Lots of humor...but I saw this bus tour online and I was like...THIS MUST HAPPEN!

Why you ask???  Well...a few years ago I really felt God say "go for it" related to another trip and I completely wimped out.  He redeemed that wimpiness with providing the opportunity to serve in 11 countries in 11 months...but I still have moments...what'ifs...what if I had originally GONE when He said GO?

I also had this relative that traveled a lot...and I always wish I had found out about his travels earlier in life before he passed...I think we would have had a lot more to say to each other.  I would have loved to know about his travel mishaps...because I sure have had enough of my own...I appreciate learning from others challenges as well.

Part of that original trip I had planned had involved travel...not volunteering or anything fluffy to talk about just sheer travel, photography, sites, weird foods, wonders.  And I'm in a space in my life again that I need that...just me, my camera, and Jesus.  A mission of Fun and nothing else.  Selfish?  Probably, but I think people are allowed to enjoy life in all sorts of ways.  I think if your a Christian your called to be a missionary no matter what you're doing.  So I don't have the goal of sharing my faith on this gig...if it happens great...if there are opportunities to help others great...but the goal is just Jesus and I.  That's all.

I don't know the WHEN for sure...but where I hope to go to...

France, Spain, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands

Roughly 20ish countries in 49 days.

Yeah...Wow.

So stay tuned..I'm sure the journey to save up to GO will be just as interesting or wild as the actual trip itself.