Thinking Travel

I’m so totally jealous.

I just came across the Pursue the Passion website of three recent college grads who traveled the US interviewing people who love their jobs.

I’m jealous because I’ve always wanted to roadtrip the US/Mexico/Canada for several months…a year…longer. (Heck, what I really want to do is live out of a backpack for a couple years while Aaron and I volunteer our way around the world. I have the trip all planned out. Just ask Aaron.)

I’ve mentioned the idea of finding sponsors to help finance my round-the-world travel (hey, I’m still paying off school loans).

The response?

“Who in the world would fund you to travel?”

Well obviously the idea isn’t that far-fetched because these PTP guys have Nestle giving them money (and chocolate?) to travel the US and write about it.

Anyway.

Browsing their website I found myself thinking, oh, if only I’d done something cool and out of the ordinary back when I graduated from college. If only I’d followed through with one of my big crazy ideas.

Then I remembered: Oh ya, I did do something like that.

Not in the buy-a-special-bus-and-line-up-interviews-and-get-corporate-sponsorship way.

More in the do-something-off-the-beaten-path-that-doesn’t-involve-a-cubical kind of way.

At the time it was a big crazy idea that was exciting and scary and the best thing I ever did.

More in the next post…