Aug 2008
Mexico (17 days)-Mexico City, Puebla, Oaxaca, San Cristobal de las Casas, Palenque, Merida, Cancun, Playa del Carmen
September 2008
Belize (4 days)-Caye Caulker, San Ignacio
Guatemala (9 days)-Flores, Rio Dulce, Antigua
Honduras (5 days)-Copan, Utila, The Bay Islands, Tegucigalpa
Nicaragua (6 days)-Granada, Ometepe
Costa Rica (9 days)-Monteverde, La Fortuna, San Jose, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Bocos del Toro,
October 2008
Panama (10 days)-El Valle, Panama City
Ecuador (14 days)
November 2008
Peru (13 days)
New Zealand (21 days)
December 2008
Australia (5 days)
Indonesia (7 days)
Cambodia (6 days)
Laos (6 days)
Thailand (11 days-meet Buchan family!)
January 2009
India (TBD)
China (depending on Visa status)
Febuary 2009
Egypt (TBD)
Turkey (TBD)
Israel (TBD)
March 2009
Heather returns to Seattle....Toriann continues on...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
How it all began...
Who are we?.... We are two friends that met in a freshman orientation group at Seattle Pacific University. Our friendship grew over the next 5-6 years of school. We both traveled during school quite a bit-sometimes delaying our diligent studying to go abroad, othertimes studying as we traveled. But, eventually we graduated, even if a year or two late, and we entered the working world. Toriann, a more than full-time nanny, spends her days with two 2 year olds, while working for many other families in the evenings and weekends. Heather works as a nurse on the adult medicine unit at the public-free care-trauma hospital.
What are we doing?...Toriann came to me with the idea last summer after returning from Argentina. She had met two girls who were spending the year traveling around the world and loved the idea! I was not at all shocked when she proposed the idea that we do the same thing, and by the end of the conversation we were both tentatively committed. The plan further developed after we went to Kenya last August. We loved the people of Kodera and planned on returning with the Pine Lake group next year and then heading off further from there. However, due to all the political instability that Kenya has gone through this year, PLCC had to cancel the trip. So, Toriann and I pulled out our map and started our itinerary from scratch!
I am completely excited about this amazing opportunity! I feel so incredibly humbled and blessed to have the chance to go and see so much of the world. I feel blessed to have a supportive family. I feel blessed that my boyfriend understands. I feel blessed to have met Toriann the first week of college and developed a friendship that is strong enough to know we can spend a lot of time together :)
We hope to share the next 9 months with anyone and everyone who is interested. We are hoping for great fun, to be challenged and stretched in who we are and what we believe, and have some advenutres!
Feel free to read our stories, leave comments and/or questions, and stay in touch through this site!
What are we doing?...Toriann came to me with the idea last summer after returning from Argentina. She had met two girls who were spending the year traveling around the world and loved the idea! I was not at all shocked when she proposed the idea that we do the same thing, and by the end of the conversation we were both tentatively committed. The plan further developed after we went to Kenya last August. We loved the people of Kodera and planned on returning with the Pine Lake group next year and then heading off further from there. However, due to all the political instability that Kenya has gone through this year, PLCC had to cancel the trip. So, Toriann and I pulled out our map and started our itinerary from scratch!
I am completely excited about this amazing opportunity! I feel so incredibly humbled and blessed to have the chance to go and see so much of the world. I feel blessed to have a supportive family. I feel blessed that my boyfriend understands. I feel blessed to have met Toriann the first week of college and developed a friendship that is strong enough to know we can spend a lot of time together :)
We hope to share the next 9 months with anyone and everyone who is interested. We are hoping for great fun, to be challenged and stretched in who we are and what we believe, and have some advenutres!
Feel free to read our stories, leave comments and/or questions, and stay in touch through this site!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)