Today was End Malaria Day. For $20, you can purchase the Kindle edition of the book End Malaria at Amazon. Your $20 goes straight to Malaria No More to buy one to two mosquito nets and deliver them to those in need. The book is a collection of essays written by 60 different authors, but […]
6 Months Until Our RTW Trip
With 6 months to go until our RTW adventure we have begun to look a bit more critically at our to-do list. We began selling off stuff around the house and are picking up some of the bigger ticket items to help spread out the costs. Specifically we picked up our packs and Josh’s travel […]
What To Do When Your Tour Bus is a Beat-Up Hatchback
When you sign up for a tour you expect a bus or a van to show up and unless you sign up for a private tour you also expect to be in a group setting with people from around the world. While visiting Tamarindo in Costa Rica we signed up for a last minute estuary […]
Unusual Spending on RTW
This showed up in our inbox today: I love that it claims we already have an “average” for spending on Round the World trips. 🙂
Why 12 Months of Traveling Will Help Your Career
I have mentioned this before, but one of the first questions you will get when you tell people you are taking a gap year to travel is, “What about your job?“. Your career is important and you don’t need to throw it out the window to travel. Change how you think about your trip and […]
Chasing After Bigger Fish
A great story via zen habits: A father and his son went fishing on a small boat, hungry. The father helped his son reel in his first fish, and it was a beauty. “Great catch, son,” the father said. “Yes, but I’m worried I’m missing out on better fish,” the son said. “What if I […]
5 Steps for Breaking the News to Your Family
1. Make Sure You Actually Want to Take the Trip Telling people about the trip makes it real. Before you begin to promote your trip, make sure you have thought through not only the exciting countries you want to visit, but think about how hard it will be and the stressful times you might have. You […]
Stop Shoulding on Yourself
As of today, August 18, 2011, we are working diligently to put our lengthy conversations to rest and actually start planning our round the world adventure. We needed to stop talking about how we WANTED to travel and how we SHOULD travel before we get too settled, and actually commit to going! We need to stop SHOULDING […]
Dear Mom and Dad…
Dear Mom and Dad, After months of planning, budgeting and dreaming together, Josh and I have decided to follow our passion to travel. Together we have decided that experiencing different cultures and living is more important to us for the next year than climbing the corporate ladder. So, I am asking you both to support us as […]
It All Begins
Traveling 9 to 5 was born from two people with a huge curiosity about what is outside our country’s borders. We live in a westernized world with very deep beliefs in the “American Dream.” Chasing after that dream can be exhausting and possibly un-fulfilling if reached in the end. A big decision we have made […]