Are you happy? :)

Hi Y'all! So I have had this gradual realization about my expectations and how they play the biggest role in discovering happiness both in life and in travel. So please for the sake of yourself and my blog listen to me now: 
FIRST:  I want you to imagine yourself looking out an airplane window.  ~~~~~

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You are headed on your dream vacation. Lets say it is on an island.
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Imagine your perfect day on this island.  Maybe a Mai-tai. Maybe a piña colada. Virgin if you're pure. How would your perfect day play out?  Think about this for a second.  What is your perfect vacation? 

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Now erase everything you just dreamt of because that is not how it will happen.

Brutal, I know, but the chances of it laying out that way are extremely low.

This is what I want you to do:

Go with no expectation..

or perhaps go expecting the worst. 

 Seriously. Imagine that you will do nothing more exciting than sitting in your hotel room.  Now when I say this I hope you don't actually go and sit in your hotel room. Do make a small list of the most important things that you must do but allow your schedule to be flexible. Allow time for opportunities to take place. I strongly believe things happen the way they do for purpose. For a  lesson and an opening door.
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My favorite proverb in this entire world.

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My biggest advice for both life and traveling is:

Never set expectations. 
Open yourself up to flexibility.  If you get a nudge to go a specific way or to get on a specific train, do it.  Beautiful things happen.. some might even call it magic :) 

Being released from dogma: Live by this.

Words I live by. 

I still feel like you may have some hesitation about going.. so every now and again I will try to inspire you as much as possible because I feel there is no better education than studying this earth and it's people.
If I found out I had a life threatening sickness tomorrow,
I would still feel damn accomplished with my life! 

Could you say the same? 

I don't need to follow society's idea of how this life is "suppose to happen" to feel satisfied. There are no guidelines to life. This world is a giant game, seriously.. challenge the social normality.
We need more people who have enough courage to do so.

Should I stay or should I go?

I haven't met a single person whose dream didn't involve packing up their clothes and getting the hell out of town. I speak for myself and possibly a thousand others when I say this offer is 100% appealing:

London, United Kingdom 2012

They say "follow your dreams", I say "with what money." 

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That is the problem, I'm young and to be honest, my dad still pays for my phone bill. I don't have a bottomless bank account or a trust fund from the rich side of the family. I have my paychecks from working at part-time job at a frozen yogurt shop and that is about it. So how do you chase after your dreams when money is the biggest factor and you well... don't have it? 

Loop holes! 

I researched hours before I found many loop holes around the traditional way of travel. This blog is where I will share all of them with you because keeping them to myself seems a little selfish. 

If you are stuck on whether traveling is the right thing for you, please read this beautiful story, shared by http://solotravelerblog.com, which inspired me to go.