In the weeks leading up to training camp the thing that stressed me out the most was PACKING. I am an over-packer by nature and a procrastinator, so against my Mom's constant begs, I just accumulated a bunch and didn't attempt to put it all together until THREE days before I left. I have known about this launch date for 7 months... The first attempt to get all my hopes and dreams into the pack was unsu...
'Twas the night before launch weekend and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except for me. I’m awake. I wanted to share candidly about the last few weeks. I have been a mess. But a beautifully broken mess. There has been 7 months of build up to this point. And boy, nothing like having 7 months and waiting to try packing everything for the first time 3 days before (especially when it doesn’t ...
August 27th is fast approaching and I am in full prep mode! In May, it felt like I got all the vaccines known to man: Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Typhoid Fever, Polio Booster, Tetanus Booster, and Hepatitis A. Of course that's not even close to everything out there, but it was a lot and my arms were not thrilled. I used a great resource, Passport Health, which is a chain of travel clinics that he...
John C. Maxwell says, change is inevitable, but growth is optional. Over the past month, I have moved from the place I called home for the last 5 years, turned in my notice at my job where I have spent the past 10 years, and soon I will be saying goodbye to my #shortbrownfella (my dog, Shadow) that I have had for 16 years. To say my life has (and will continue to change) in 2022 is an understatement. ...
If I’m honest, my life hasn’t unfolded like I expected it to. I thought by now I would have been married with my own children, living in a house settled somewhere. BUT GOD. He protected me from myself. He knew there was nothing wrong with my vision to hope for those things but that there was more for me to learn and grow and experience first. So as a thirty-one-year-old single lady (que Beyonce´), I now can look b...
So, how did I end up here? Well, let me tell you the short story! I heard about the World Race several years ago on Stephanie May Wilson’s podcast (shout out to all the Girl’s Night listeners out there). I looked it up, thought it was cool, and then closed my browser. Fast forward to last year... my neighbors got back from a trip and told me about this World Race information session they had just att...