Where to begin? About a year ago, I had gotten a wild hair and figured that I wanted to shake up the corporate routine and go back to school. My career was starting to stall, and I was intrigued by the idea of pushing the reset button and doing something completely different.
Pros: New Career, learning new things, Join an industry in its infancy
Cons: Graduate School at age 35(!), Much lost $$$ in income
I decided to go for it, and with some encouragement of my friends and colleagues applied to two local graduate programs. Unfortunately for me, I was applying at the ripe-old age of 35 to two of the most prestigous schools in the country in the middle of the greatest recession in almost 80 years. Predictably, I did not get accepted. Fortunately, I had a backup plan.
Traveling is something that Ana and I do every now and again… not often enough to be considered seasoned travelers, but we’ve gotten around the world a bit. Ana is usually the one who gets the travel bug, and about once a year she propositions me to sell all of our possessions and travel the world. She’s been doing this for about 8 years now, but I never take her seriously: Until now. I am calling her bluff this year, and to my surprise, she did not flinch even a tinsy bit: she hasn’t been bluffing all these years!
So now we begin the long complicated task of planning our trip. We’re not selling the house and all of our possessions: It turns out the combination of potential graduate school and the global financial meltdown had us saving cold hard cash for a while. It’s exciting to think that this is really happening and there’s a bit of hindsight nostalgia going on here (starting the blog after the fact), but there’s actual a lot of work left in planning and logistics. The grind! Planning process and itinerary to come…
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