I've finally made it to the blog world! Intro...

Traveling the world, living abroad, speaking foreign languages and meeting new, adventurous souls with lust for life are the true passions of my life. Since the first time I traveled abroad to Italy in between my junior and senior year of high school, I have been infected by the infamous travel bug. World travel is worth nearly any cost or sacrifice and I am loyal and passionate in my pursuit of it. In this blog I plan to share journal entries from past trips abroad as well as insight into my ex-pat life here on the gorgeous island of Florianopolis in Southern Brazil. Life is about the journey, not the destination. Come along with me....... vamos, andiamo, shall we go? Buon viaggio!!!

Inpiring Quotes from the book Eat, Pray, Love

• Virgina Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course."

• The Bhagavad Gita says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.