My Traveling Heart.

I’m a strong believer in making lemonade with the lemons that life throws at you. In 2008 as my company slowly lost work, lay-offs were eminent. I swore that I would make the most of my unemployment and travel. Little did I know that “unemployment” would last 3+ years, and I’d end up becoming self-employed instead. Marvelous. So for all you who didn’t know where I was when I disappeared out of town… here I was! (And I just noticed I traveled every month from July 2009 to now… so crazy)

*click on the links below for a blog post about the adventure!

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2007 

01.10-01.18 Japan
02.05-02.18 Las Vegas and New York
03.21-04.04 Boston and New York
09.10-10.03 Europe

(62 days of travel)

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2008

05.12-05.17 New York
7.23 laid off
09.19-09.23 Oahu, Hawaii
11.03-11.19 Shanghai and Beijing

(28 days of travel)

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2009

02.12-02.17 San Diego & Disneyland
03.04-03.07 Disneyland
03.24-04.06 Australia/New Zealand
04.09-04.12 Las Vegas & Utah
07.22-07.30 Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
08.14-08.17 SLO
09.02-09.10 New York
09.10-09.18 San Antonio
09.18-09.20 Corpus Christi
09.20-09.22 San Antonio
10.06-10.07 Las Vegas
10.21-10.28 New York
11.10-11.19 Washington, DC
11.19-11.24 Seattle
12.03-12.21 Thailand/Cambodia

(113 days of travel)

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2010

01.21-01.23 Georgia
01.23-01.25 San Antonio
01.25-01.27 Fort Collins
02.07-02.23 Peru
03.07-03.11 Las Vegas
03.19-03.24 New York
03.27-02.03 Dominican Republic & Haiti
04.16-04.20 Atlanta
05.11-05.13 Las Vegas
06.04-06.06 Las Vegas
06.09-06.15 Louisiana
07.14-07.19 Seattle
08.04-08.09 Fargo, North Dakota
08.09-08.17 New York
08.17-08.22 Virginia and Pennsylvania
08.22-08.25 Phoenix
09.30-10.04 Las Vegas
10.25-10.27 Orange County
10.28-11.09 North Carolina
11.09-11.16 New York
11.18-11.21 Long Beach
12.04-12.06 Disneyland
12.27-12.31 North Carolina

(I30 days of travel)

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2011

01.01-01.04 North Carolina
01.11-01.12 Disneyland
02.20-02.24 Las Vegas
03.06-03.10 Vancouver
03.10-03.12 Southern California
04.12-04.27 New York
05.12-05.16 Southern California
07.05-07.13 Vancouver
07.27-08.02 Seattle
08.10-08.15 Southern California
08.29-09.08 New York
09.24-09.28 Baton Rouge, LA
10.01-10.15 Dubai & Abu Dhabi, UAE; Muscat, Oman
11.14-11.18 Atlanta
12.05-12.14 Vancouver
12.28-12.31 New York

(111 days of travel)

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2012

01.01-01.11 New York
01.24-01.27 Portland
02.20-02.23 Las Vegas
03.05-03.09 Phoenix
03.20-03.20 New York
03.30-04.01 Washington, DC
05.04-05.06 Atlanta, GA

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And here’s my favorite quote…..