About

I got my first job at 15, working for McDonald’s. I’ve been working ever since, and along with six years of college, I’ve been pretty much going down the standard career path for my whole life. That has all changed in recent months. One of my best friends, Bharath, has been trying to convince me to go with him to India for years. I finally realized I could make it happen this year. We were planning out our trip, and my girlfriend Cassie, after initially saying she probably wouldn’t be able to go, saw the pictures of the places we were planning to go to and changed her mind. So, the three of us will be going to India in November. After we booked the plane tickets, I started realizing that I had never really set off on my own or strayed from the “hurry up and be an adult” thing. I started thinking about other travels I wanted to do: a road trip up the Washington coast to Olympic National Park, a robotic space suit tour of the solar system, a trip through Central America…

After careful consideration, I decided the price of gas would make the space suit tour prohibitively expensive. Road trip and Central America? Doable! I had some air miles accumulated and started looking at making a trip through Central America happen, only to discover it was the same 35,000 air miles to get a roundtrip to Lima, Peru as it was to get to Cancun, Mexico. Huh!? So, I’m going to Peru instead.

That’s the idea. I quit my job, booked plane tickets, and now I’m going to be writing about a few West Coast road trips, a six week trip to South America, and an indeterminate journey through India and other parts of Asia. Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia are all possibilities right now, along with New Zealand.