faq's

most people i talk to about this whole thing i'm doing- traveling around, working and living different places several months at a time, for a year or two- ask the same thing.  are you married? are you traveling with anybody?  you're brave. what do your parents think of you doing this?
well, to answer those things in a nutshell.  nope.  not married.  i kinda always thought that at this point in life i'd have either: a dog, a husband, or a million dollars.  since i have none of those things, i'm pretty much free to do as i please. . . a million dollars would just be bad for that habit anyway.  thank goodness for that freedom!  i'm not traveling with anyone at this point.  and my parents are my biggest encouragers.
with those things said, i can't imagine a better fit for myself.  i've been taking leaps of faith, which have turned out better than i could have ever hoped, imagined or prayed for, for years.  going on my big mexican christmas mission trips in high school, i left for the sake of adventure, to fulfill a natural desire to help those in need.  i ended up making some lifelong friends and growing more from those experiences than i ever thought possible for one person to grow.  i mean, what kind of 16 year old girl says "adios" to her family and all of her friends and gives up presents in exchange for a bus trip to a garbage dump in juarez mexico?  me, i guess.  and i loved it so much, that still just thinking about the random adventure of it makes me giddy.  going to school in chicago, opened my eyes to a bigger world than the small town which nurtured me into a pretty solid-living human being.  my giant move to dc.  holy cow.  i hate to toot my own little horn here, but i was pretty brave at a pretty trying time in my life to make a permanent move somewhere where i knew nobody, and really hadn't thought once about ever living, in order to get a really big and really stressful job done.  ugh, stressful is not even close to strong enough of a word to describe that task.  don't get me started on how incredibly heaven-sent that whole venture was, we'll save that for a rainy day.
i guess my point is, this whole traveling around, working and living different places for a year or two thing just makes sense.  it combines too much of who i am not to make sense.  and i am really, really excited for a couple years down the road, when i'm able to look back and add this to my list of leaps of faith that turned out better than i could have ever hoped.

cheers!