I decided to throw this link in here for anyone who’d like to get to know me better. My first “jumping off the cliff” experience came back in 2010 when I decided to backpack around Europe for 3.5 months. Though I’ve had some significant travel experiences since then, this was the journey that sort of ripped the roof off of having a normal life. Read more about this trip as well as useful ideas for your own travels at my previous (and now inactive) blog:
a great, real place 