How It All Began...

Welcome to our travel blog!  It's been a long time coming, but its finally here...yes, we're finally leaving the good ole USA today!!!  It's kinda crazy to think back to how this whole traveling around the world thing started.  Scott thought that he was going to be laid off from his job and with the finance market being so grim decided that traveling for a while would be the better option.  Somehow he got me on board with this lavish idea, so I quit my job and we started planning our trip.  We were supposed to leave 2 months ago but life dealt us some tough losses.  My father passed away at the beginning of August after battling lung cancer.  I was so fortunate to have been able to spend his last few weeks with him and to have been there with my family.  I know he's in a better place now which has helped comfort me during this difficult time.  We started planning our trip again shortly after and were set to leave on August 30th.  Then we received the news that Scott's brother, Ryan, died tragically while vacationing in Hawaii.  Obviously, this loss is devastating for the Strawn family.  The services were held 2 weeks ago to celebrate Ryan's life.  It was amazing to see how many lives he touched.  Ryan was very excited for our trip and would have wanted us to continue on our journey abroad.  So that's we're doing.  We are begining our travele in Europe as the starting point for our trip around the world.  We plan to return to the US in mid-November for the holidays and will stay until sometime in January.  Our next continent will then be South America, then Australia and New Zealand, Asia, and Africa.  Our journey should end by June/July...or whenever the money runs out!  Let us know if you would like to join us along the way.  Company is welcome!

Right now we are sitting at Logan International Airport waiting for our flight to Dublin.  Will post again once we arrive in Ireland.  Wooohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!