As my May 1st fly-way date fast approaches, so does the time I have left to de-clutter, decide what I want to have the movers put in storage on April 11th and what will be sold at my 'estate sale' on April 18th. I'm looking at this as a great opportunity to purge myself of …
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I purchased the first leg, the ignagural flight, the scariest part of the RTW trip on Friday! It's now a REAL thing - money spent, non-refundable ticket - ARGH! I had originally hoped that fly from Chicago to Iceland to Athens, but being flexible is one of the mainstays of this trip and when the cost …
Hola! I just returned from 10 days in beautiful Ajijic, Mexico. The sun was shinning, the temps were in the mid-70's and the streets were filled with Canadians and Americans enjoying the weather and getting medical and dental procedures done. …
2015 is going to be a monumental year for many of us. For me, it means packing up or selling off everything I own, putting what I'm keeping in storage, purchasing the first flight for my RTW trip, packing my bag and stepping off into the unknown. I was recently asked 'At your age, why …
Last night I had the great pleasure and honor of speaking for the Modern Professionals group of International Women Associates. The title of my speech was 'My Adventurous Life - From Broadway to the Boardroom to Backpacking Around-the-World.' It was so fun to share my adventures with a really great group of women, and to encourage …
This is a photo of Janice Waugh. I have been an avid reader of Janice's blog SoloTraverler for as long as I have been considering my RTW trip. I like her blog, especially since we have matching hair color and she seems to be a down-to-earth person when talking about long-term travel. Janice is a …
Hello Everyone - Bet you thought I had given up writing this blog! Nope - just took a break while getting settled into my new Chicago home. Over Thanksgiving (see family above) my youngest mentioned that my Facebook posts were getting much too long and I should go back to blogging instead. I agreed with …
WheW - moving is just no fun. First I was told I needed a 16' truck, but then Penske was nice enough to up me to a 22' for no extra charge. I thought great, bigger is always better. But my local store only had 26' trucks, which they were going to let me have …
I have lived in my little-house-by-the-sea in Wilmington, NC on-and-off for the past 5 1/2 years. I say on-and-off as during that time I was away serving in the Peace Corps and then traveling cross-country in my RV or in my Jeep. I decided it was time to move during my 4-month road-trip last Fall …
The odometer, which read -0- when I pulled out of my drive early morning on August 1st read 7999.9 when I parked in my garage and turned off the engine of the Jeep 52 days later, at 2:30 p.m. on September 21st, to be precise. I had just completed an ALMOST 8,000 round-trip drive from …
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