it begins…
This is the beginning of a story that I didn’t anticipate I would be telling. Some people have grand plans to travel. They create travel savings accounts. They plan their lives around where they’re going to go next. This is not how I started traveling.
My girlfriend, Megan, and I have been living in the Mission district of San Francisco for the past two years. A couple of months ago we were spending a Sunday in Golden Gate Park. Somehow, and I honestly can’t remember how, we decided to quit our jobs, sell everything we own, deplete our savings, and travel through Central and South America. Now, I’ve come up with grand and crazy plans many times before. This time, though, I followed through. I quit my job. Yesterday, I sold our bookcase. I’m buying our plane tickets this week. There’s no turning back now. This is it.
So, the plan is this, and god knows it’ll probably change a million times: We’re moving out of our apartment on the first of October taking a two week road trip to Tulsa, OK where Megan’s mom lives, dropping the VW bug off there having stuffed it to the gills and sold or thrown out anything that didn’t fit in it. Then we fly to Cancun. We’ll travel down the Yucatan peninsula on the Ruta Maya for two weeks until we reach Guatemala and spend a month in either Antigua or Xela, taking Spanish classes. Then we’ll move on and visit the Bay Islands in Honduras, travel down through Nicaragua, and into Costa Rica, where we’ll meet up with my mother who is going to spend a week with us in the beginning of January. Then we’ll hop on a plane and fly to Quito, Ecuador and travel through Ecuador, Peru, and end in Bolivia. We fly back to the States in April. That’s the plan at least. Who knows where we’ll end up.
So, here’s to grand and crazy plans. Here’s to quitting my job, here’s to selling my bookcase. And here’s to a story that, although unanticipated, will most definitely be rich.
-Sarah
Tags: Central America, Preparations, San Francisco, South America, Travel
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