Well for those of you who know how much I love to travel, I am off again on another trip. I had a couple of people ask me if I will be posting again while I am gone and I decided to start a new blog instead of continuing off of my old one. So welcome to my new blog....
As some of you may or may not know, I will be leaving for Europe again for a month in the middle of May. I have to work for one of the best companies around because not only do I have an amazing job that I love in Social Work, but I get to work from home and have a lot of benefits and perks to my job. Not only do I have a very flexible schedule and a ton of vacation time, but how many other companies out there give employees a month off at a time? Not many and my work has given me a month off from mid May to mid June to take an extended vacation.
This whole thing started over a year ago when a friend and I were discussing our 30th birthdays. I will turn 30 in October of this year and wanted to do a big trip sometime this year to celebrate the ocassion. A couple of friends can go for two weeks so we planned that and I figured I would ask for as much time as I could to stay longer. I broached the subject with my boss about a year ago who advised me that the maximum amount of time I could take would be one month. He kinda laughed and smiled when we first discussed this because he knew where this was going as I have the reputation at work of being the resident traveler. So a couple of months back, we discussed it and I asked for the time off. I figured go big or go home, the worst he can do is say "No" and then we could negotiate down from there for less time. A few weeks later, I was approved for the whole month off and started planning!
The plan is to head over to London for a week with my friends Jessica and Tina. We will be there doing all the touristy and sightseeing stuff we can in and around the area before hopping a flight up to Ireland. We'll spend a week driving through the south of Ireland before they will both head home. After that, I am off on my own for 2 weeks. My plan is to head over to Estonia, Lativa, and Lithuania for two weeks and then likely fly home out of Helsinki, Finland. It's so close to Estonia, might as well throw in another country, right? Now I know this will be my third time in London, but as some of you may or may not know, I absolutely LOVE London and have no problem heading there again! If I were to live in any big city somewhere else, it would most definately be there!
It should be tons of fun and I can't wait! Traveling is truly my passion in life and if I could just get paid to travel, I think would be in heaven on earth!
As of now, there are no reservations made, no plane tickets bought, no anything done other than knowing the dates we are traveling. And we are leaving in 2 months! It's my kind of trip where everything is handled last minute, but it will all work out well. I dug out my good old trusty backpack that I was living out of for 4 months last time I was there and it was very excited to see the light of day and know that it will be getting used again. My traveling shoes came out of retirement and a shiny new passport just arrived and is itching for those stamps to be placed in there. For those of you who will be following along, thanks for reading and I will be posting once it gets closer to departure time.
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