What have we done?!?

When Eugene suggested over 2 years ago that we “sell everything and travel the world”, I had first assumed he was joking. Who does that kind of thing? But he started to tell me about a guy he had worked with long ago who had just come back from spending a year traveling and how much he admired him for it. It then took another year full of wedding stuff and a long European honeymoon, before we really talked seriously about it. This time, I was ready to do it. A year later, we left our jobs, put everything we own in storage, and began our journey.

The night we left, our friends gave us a wonderful sushi send-off (thanks Rose and Andreas!) and brought us to SFO for our last steps on US soil for 5 months. One of our goals is to travel without much of a plan, so we arrived at the airport with a one-way ticket to the Philippines and hotel reservation for the first week. This was immediately the source of our very first travel problem – you can’t check into a flight to the Philippines without having an exit ticket. Day 0, and we already had our first “technology and ubiquitous internet saved our ass” moment when we bought tickets to Singapore while sitting on the airport floor.

In the next 25 hours of travel, we had a lot of time to contemplate what the f we had just done. Eugene had a couple panic attacks and I still don’t really believe that we won’t be back in the US for so long. Can we really fly by the seat of our pants for the next 5 months? Will we get bored or just tired? What happens when a scientist and a crazy engineer explore the world? Stay tuned for updates along the way and our next post from the island of Boracay!