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| Monument in Lucerne Switzerland |
For this Travel Tuesday, we're going to do something a bit different.
In the past four years, I've been lucky enough to get on planes (of
which I'm deathly afraid of) empty out my bank account (which I kind
of hate) and see some pretty amazing things (which I love).
Normally, I am a homebody. I like my apartment and I like my
computer. I read my books and write my stories and Friday nights
normally don't have me leaving my apartment because the lure of a
good cup of coffee is more important. But then there’s travel.
When the bug hits, it bites with a vengeance and has a tendency of
ripping my insides apart until I am buying a ticket to someplace new.
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| Abandoned castle outside London |
This first happened close to four years ago. I had been saving up
for years to go to Europe, but it wasn't ever a reality for me.
Then, after some personal tragedy, I did what only crazy people do.
I booked my trip and three months later, I took off to Europe for
close to two months. Since then, I have gotten to go and see
different cities here in the States and have even made my way up
through Canada. There are weeks that I live on Top Ramen because of
it but traveling has never been something I regret. The stories that
I hear during my travels are often times humbling, and the things I
have seen and experienced have made me into the kind of person that I
am proud to be.
Now, switching gears.
I've known Caitlyn since I was about four. This girl has been a part
of my life for over twenty years at this point and I can still
remember my first meeting with her. Little did either of us know
that the day her mom and her came over to introduce themselves to my
family, that the two little girls that were sizing each other up in
ways that only four year olds can do, would still be friends years
later. We grew up next door to each other in a small little country
town and have been pushing each other to be the kind of person we
each want to be since our playground days. I can't speak for her,
but for me, this girl has never allowed me to give up on my writing
and she has been instrumental in pushing me to continue to improve.
She's the girl that I ran around Chicago with. She's the girl who is
responsible for some of the gorgeous coast pictures you've seen in
previous Travel Tuesday's and she is at fault for me watching so much
Doctor Who and Torchwood. But hey! I got her hooked on the
Whedonverse so its a fair trade.
And now we're teaming up. But don't worry, my wonderful blog readers
(of which there's probably about a dozen of you), we will not use our
powers for evil.
Welcome to the face of Whimsy Travels!
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| Caitlyn and Moi |
And while we are not as cool as this face
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| A pretty awesome face that we are not |
We are still pretty awesome.
Our goal is to travel the world, taking pictures and writing about
what we see. We've both met some incredible people when we've left
our small town here in Oregon and we want to meet more of them. So,
doing this as cost effective as possible (because lets face it,
during the day her and I are simply a hairdresser and a florist), we
plan to go and seek these people out. Ask them their story. See the
passions that they have in life and maybe, through these small
actions, remind the world that living your life exactly the way you
want it, is possible.
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| Chicago Photo courtesy of Caitlyn Tendic http://www.flickr.com/photos/97205176@N06/ |
Our first trip is planned for the end of November. Stepping foot
across the sea's, we plan to visit Cardiff, Wales, Edinburgh,
Scotland, and London, England. It'll be ten days of seeing and
meeting all that we can while living on little to no sleep and
indulging in the coffee that, from experience, isn't very good over
there. Except at the Unicorn Cafe. I cannot express how much I love
that place.
Here's the catch, though. We need your help. Following this crazy
dream of ours is being done on a minimum wage budget while both of us
are trying to balance the life that we're sure all of you are trying
to do as well. This is not something that we want to stop us,
however because both of us have learned from experience that you
don't get what you want if you aren't willing to think outside of the
box. After all, the only time its appropriate to think inside the
box, is if its bigger on the inside.
We
aren't asking for much. Our hopes is to just raise enough money for
our plane tickets over there. If you would like to donate, please
visit our fundrazer page at https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/0YTh5
Anything you can give would be of great help. Of course, you will
get something in return for this. If you donate, please send your
contact information to whimsytravels@gmail.com.
While we are in Europe, we will be picking up postcards of the
places we visit and sending them off to everyone that helped us get
across the sea.
If
you would like to donate, please visit our page here:
https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/0YTh5
Don't forget to email us at whimsytravels@gmail.com
and let us know your contact information so we can send you some
postcards.
Also,
check out Caitlyn's flicker page, which I tend to steal pictures off
of relentlessly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97205176@N06/
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