2016 – Travels and Life in Review

Happy New Years! I couldn’t be more excited for the year to come, but 2016 was so AMAZING that it deserves some review. Last year was one for the books: an emotional, spiritual and adventurous rollercoaster that has forever changed my life.

At some point about 2 years ago, a light bulb in my soul lit up. I had to make a change. I had to make myself happy again. I had been stuck in a stressful rut and was unhappy with my day to day life.

For a long, long time I had wanted to travel and see the world.

But in order to be “successful”, I couldn’t leave a job. I would never achieve “success” in that way. But I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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Getting to Costa Rica – The Adventure Begins

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am already two and a half months into my travels, and am finally able to write to you. So here it goes…

Backpack Break in Mahahual, Mexico

After leaving my job on January 1st of 2016, we had just a few short days to finish packing and gathering all the equipment that we needed for our trip to Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Those days went by quickly and the next thing I knew we were leaving Mexico and soon after Belize and Guatemala. Before traveling, six weeks seemed like a long time. However, it was soon very clear to me that it wasn’t near enough time to see and do everything we wanted, nonetheless write about what we were experiencing. Read more