Bill and I met 2 years ago, since then we have been inseparable. It wasn't long after we met that we started making plans to backpack across Europe. It was then that we started saving money, one thing led to another and the money was gone before we could even think of going anywhere. I was still in high school at the time and therefore did not have the ability of just up and leaving.

Just before I graduated I got a new full time job which I have been working at for a year on May 12th. I work in the Customer Service Department of T-mobile. Everyday I talk to people who accuse me of stealing their minutes and traveling 3000 miles in a night to use their child's phone to run up their bill or that I have turned off their screen because they are over their minutes, even though we have absolutely no possible way of doing that. All in all my job has been slowly sucking my livelihood from me and causing me to lose faith in humanity.

Slowly I have came to the conclusion that if I stay at T-mobile much longer I'm going to slit my own throat. To keep that from becoming an actuality my boyfriend and I are going to just take off and backpack around the world. We will see as much as we can within the next 4 years. This is my Never Never land, a time in my life when I don't have to be a grownup, just a wanderer.

All of my childhood I dreamed that Peter Pan would rescue me and take me to some place in which I could stay a child forever. He never came. I was never rescued. For much of my life that has disappointed me although I knew all along it would never happen.

After much searching, I have finally found a companion who is just as crazy as me, Bill. He is by far the most amazing man I have ever met. A short list why I love Bill, in no particular order: 1.) He is a musician, 2.) he is a MMA fighter, 3.) he's loyal, 4.) he's the sweetest person I've met, 5.) he's "eccentric" or, as us poor people call it, crazy, 6.) he's confident and 7.) he's entertaining. Anyone who meets him will see what I mean by entertaining. When Bill speaks he speaks to the world, for everyone must listen to Bill, but he's interesting so you want to listen to him.

April 17, 2009 we set the date for departure, May 20th of 2009. This trek across the world is the most exciting and terrifying thing I have ever done. I do not know if it is just nomadic instinct or the feeling of being boxed in that made me jump start this adventure, but whatever the cause I know this is what I need to do. There is no going back. My mind has been set and my obsessive tendencies have kicked in.


~Courtney