The plan and its precursors

For years now I have been half jokingly talking about running away from home.  Never when I was a child did I want to run away from home, it is a recent development that came about sometime in my 20s.  This plan has been disregarded a number of times, because I was in school, because I was working, because I had a car payment, because because because.  This started to feel a bit like be-excuse be-excuse be-excuse....but it also seemed like the way life goes.  I have tried to do life like you are supposed to, I went to school, I worked while I was there, I got my BA and then my MA because that's what you do right?  You go to college to get a good job.  I have tried that plan....that plan led to my new "Grand Adventure" plan!!   After having my heart broken by dream job after dream job after dream job I finally had the ultimate heartbreak.  A job working for a historical architecture organization, writing for them to be more exact, a dream job for a History major who worked in architecture for three years before getting her Master's!!!  Alas, I did not get a chance to interview for the position for the same reason I hadn't interviewed for or gotten all the other dream jobs....I didn't have the correct, or enough relevant, work experience.  You could call this the straw on my back, I broke and I have never been so pleased to have broke!!!  I have decided that if I do not have the correct work experience to get the jobs I want, I will go get the LIFE experience I want instead.  My projected departure date will be the end of May, beginning of June for Europe.  From there I plan to take a year to keep working my way east until I get west again, hitting 6 of the 7 continents, working here and there along the way, volunteering with some really neat organizations, talking politics and art with locals, being a silent observer, and reading Vonnegut (amongst others but always Vonnegut) on the trains of the world.  I'll be using this blog once I am on the road and I have a few uses in mind during the lead up.  If anyone has any suggestions for places that I HAVE to see, send them to me please this site will be where I do a lot of my planning and weighing out options (and if you want to meet me somewhere, lets get that planned!).  Later on I will be posting some of the volunteer projects that  I plan on taking part in.  I will also be using the site to auction off some art work donated by my wonderful and talented artist friends to help me build my travel fund.  Stay tuned...the adventure is just beginning!