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You are here: Home / Destinations / North America / USA / Let’s get this show on the road

Let’s get this show on the road

March 13, 2009 By Jillian

Departure day has come.  Along the way we’ve said goodbye to our apartment, our car (how we miss you shakira), good friends, and family.   Our last days in Florida were met with frantic last minute phone calls, errands, selling our car, becoming Florida residents (discount at disney world!) and saying good bye to Danny’s side of the family and his Florida friends.  Although Danny denies ever having enough cuban food, his parents had a big family dinner party for us (black beans and rice included!) where we gave last minute hugs and got final words of advice.  We said goodbye to Danny’s Florida friends at a bbq and extracted some promises to run the big 5 marathon in south africa.   It was a fun, but exhausting last stop on the family tour.  Wednesday we flew to California to spend a day with some of my good friends from high school.

We’ve been to Philly, Chicago, Arkansas, Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, Huntington Beach and today we finally head to Mexico.   It feels like its been ages in coming, but as I sit here and type I can hardly believe the actual official departure date is here. Part of me wants to stay here in California another day, another week, but I know I can’t put this day off any longer.

To those astute readers out there, yes we were supposed to be in Mexico yesterday.  However, the rush of the last few weeks, coupled with the limited time we were going to spend with our good friends out in Orange County, and the complete screw up of Schwab Credit Card lead to one last wonderful day in the U.S.

Yesterday was a blur of packing, repacking, packing again and oh yea putting EVERYthing into small ziploc bags. Today we take the plunge and start our travel journey.  Yes, we are still going to Mexico.  Yes, we know about the travel warnings and no, we are not crazy (ok so the verdict is not out yet on that last point, but still you catch my drift).  I’m feeling anxious tonight, not because of the current situation in Mexico, but because I’m not sure exactly where I’m going to sleep tomorrow night.  Because I’m not exactly sure what is going to happen to me today or the next day or even next week.  Because today I become a world traveler.  Today is a launching off day to the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my entire life, I am anxious, excited, happy and truly looking forward to wandering the world with my husband.

Today officially begins our journey.  Today, we log off and live.  Today we get this show on the road!

Filed Under: USA Tagged With: departure, leaving

About Jillian

I'm an adventurer and a fun loving spirit. I'll do almost anything once for the experience, well within reason. I love mountain biking, hiking and swimming. I compete in adventure races, but I'm also a complete nerd and love to read. I try to live my life without regrets, in the words of Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "

Comments

  1. Aaron Wakling says

    March 13, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.

  2. Jamie says

    March 13, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Good Luck on your amazing adventure!!!!!!!!
    Love,
    Jamie

    • Jillian says

      March 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm

      Thanks!! Hopefully we´ll see you in Turkey!

  3. Nishad says

    March 14, 2009 at 7:27 am

    bon voyage!

  4. Eva Rees says

    March 16, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Glad to hear it was only a short delay 🙂
    The last minutes are such a whirlwind — take a deep breath, you’re done with that part! (lucky!)

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