Archive for June, 2009

San Diego…then Peru

June 16, 2009

San Diego is this weekend and Peru is next week!!!

San Diego…

San Diego, California

San Diego, California

Girls weekend!  I love weekend trips and I’m really looking forward to it!  My first away trip with these girls.  I have  no idea what is in store…Diane is handling all the plans.  I just need to get myself to OC and hitch a ride with them after work on Friday.  I’ll probably meet up with Peter from UCLA if we get some sense of what’s happening but that’s about all I know.  And I think the freedom of it make is exciting.  It’ll be about 7-8 girls and I’m sure there well be a lot of ideas but it’s bound to be fun!

Peru…

Machu Picchu, Peru

Machu Picchu, Peru

I have gotten side-tracked from planning my RTW trip because of my upcoming Peru trip.  I’m really looking forward to it!  I feel like I’m going to learn about about my personal strength by traveling with my dad.  I haven’t done it in so long and it’s just the two of us.  I was apprehensive in the beggining but I’m starting to feel that it’ll be okay.  I just need to go with the flow on dad’s ideas and if I plan out the ideas for the latter half of the trip out before I leave, I think it’ll be just much more copacetic.  Some of the places we’ll be checking out over the 2.5 weeks…Lima, Cusco, Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Puno, Lake Titicaca, Floating Islands of Uros, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Nazca Lines, Ballestas Islands.

Revamping the blog

June 3, 2009

If anyone is still reading this, I’m going to turn this into more of a travel blog soon in preparation of my big RTW trip next year.  I’m hoping to leave in April 2010 but will see how it goes.  I know, I should have a definite date, and I will soon but I need to spend some more time figuring out how much money anticipate having by then.  My goal is to have this blog revamped by the end of this month and more of a RTW focused blog, with some random little adventures thrown in.  But  it’ll be extremely hard as I’m going on a dream trip to Peru at the end of the month and need to plan for that and I’m going to be very busy over the next few weekends, so who knows!

Some quick goals by July 2009:

  • Make this a RTW focused blog, with some random little adventures thrown in, deleting unrelated posts and recategorizing
  • Start linking to other travel blogs and leaving comments
  • Blog about upcoming San Diego and Peru trips
  • Blog about past trips of just the cities that I’ve been to in 2009
  • Blog with a minimum of one photo per post…a little hard when both your cameras are BROKEN!!!
  • Starting thinking about how to make this blog lucrative