Reactions to THE trip

Since deciding to do this trip it is amazing the responses I have gotten when I tell others about our plan. For me it has ranged from a slightly uninterested 'Oh wow, that will be cool. How are you going to travel for a whole year with only a backpack? I could never do that', to the person whose eyes get wide and they want to know all the details of the trip. That is my favorite response, mostly because all I really want to talk about is this trip. Often there are those people that it seems NEED me to do this trip. Need me to do it because they never will or because this is what they always wanted to do, but then life happened.

For me, I think the coolest thing about traveling is the people and cultures that you encounter. The way of life outside of the US... the priorities, values, perspective and the definition of life itself. Life in the US will still be there when we get back. Really I just cannot wait for this. I have never been so excited in my life, for this chapter in my life, well lets face it, this trip will be a large book in the encyclopedia of my rockstar life.