Prologue

Snow, really? Part of me is happy to have caught a glimpse of snow before we go on our big adventure since I don’t think I’ve had a snowless winter at any point in my life but the other part of me is thinking – really? Couldn’t this have happened in a week?

Roughly a year ago, I was perusing the internet and saw a picture of a man bowling. The caption under the picture said, “Midnight bowling in Stockholm.” I picked up the phone and immediately called B, “I want to midnight bowl in Stockholm instead of Wii bowl in my living room. I want an interesting caption for the various moments of my life. We need to go to Europe.” The planning and dreaming immediately ensued with B replying, “Ok, let’s go for 6 months! Let’s sell our cars!” She is a throw caution to the wind kind of girl where as I am a “Let’s figure out how to harness this wind and turn it into energy” kind of girl. After talking some sense into her, we decided on a 5 week Eurotrip in September of 2012.

Clearly this isn’t what is happening, as I’m sure you know by now that we are going to Thailand in one week but this is how the dream started. We set out a savings budget and began waiting until September. About 5 months ago, B kept lamenting about how badly she wanted to go to Thailand. I was highly against this because Asian countries scare the shit out of me – have you seen what they eat? Have you seen what I eat? Um... do you have mashed potatoes please? So I was quick to squash the idea but my brain kept turning and I realized that Thailand is a great “starter” for an inexperienced traveler. It is laid back, cheap, and our schedule would be far less stringent than a 5 country Eurotrip.

Naturally, B insisted that we go for a year... “We’ll put our stuff in storage! Sell our cars! We’ll teach English! Can you imagine if we left for a year? We’d come back and everyone would be living in pods!” Our lack of college degrees and my lack of insanity put the kibosh on that one. So here we are... one week away from a 31 day backpacking trip to the other side of the world.

If you keep tabs on this blog, you can expect to hear about all of our adventures, including but not limited to:

RIDING A FUCKIN’ ELEPHANT

WHITE WATER FUCKIN’ RAFTING

ZIP FUCKIN’ LINING

PARTYING WITH TWENTY THOUSAND FUCKIN’ PEOPLE ON A BEACH DURING A FULL MOON

LADY (not fuckin’) BOYS

HOLDING BABY FUCKIN’ TIGERS

NIGHT FUCKIN’ KAYAKING

SURF(uckin!)

Are you as excited as I am?!

S.