The Best Laid Plans

Here's the plan. We graduated college, worked hard and saved our pennies, and decided to plan a big adventure somewhere else in the world. J went to Alaska a few days ago on a vacation with his family. They are currently riding around Denali National Park in an RV, singing Partridge family songs and trying not to get eaten by bears. I'm flying out to him in Anchorage on August 17th, and then I guess we'll go from there. We haven't bought round-the-world tickets from some major airline because we didn't want to lock ourselves into one set route. Rather, we're going to wing it from place to place and decide where to go next once we get there. When we run out of funds, we'll come home. This feels right to both of us, but lots of people (our parents, our friends, people at the bank, sales personnel at outdoor/sporting goods stores, etc) feel differently. "What do you mean you don't know where you're going? What do you mean you haven't booked any hostels?!" No one can believe that travel--especially to far away lands-- is possible without without a printed out itinerary inside the secret pocket of your fanny pack. It's the 21st century! There are ATMs in the jungle now!

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, right? We mapped out the general guidelines for our trip and then figured out what we needed for those places (visas, malaria meds, pepper spray, mittens). When we come to a fork in the road, we'll take it.

Good night moon

2:31 AM
New York City