Australia and Asia 2011

Yes, its true. I am planning on going to Australia with Julianna and Stephanie. I really do not know what I will be doing or what to expect of the trip but I am hoping to travel a lot, meet a lot of people, make a documentary, and live life. I been wanting to do this for a very very long time and the opportunity arose. For the longest time I did not want to travel because I wanted to pay my major debts. After 20 months of paying my credit card I finally finished paying it and now I want to get on with my plans. And even though a career and a family is in my plans it is still not the right time to fulfill those goals in my life. I want to do something that in the future I will not regret for not doing (did that make sense???). I am just lucky to have the family that I have who supports me with everything I set in my mind. I talked to my mom and dad and they think that its an incredible idea and the right moment in my life to do it.

Julianna and Stephanie came up with the idea a long time ago and it was always in the back of my head. I think they invited me, maybe not. But I just told them that I was coming and I think they liked the idea. I think that they are afraid about the fact that I will know their Australian secrets, but besides that I am sure that they are happy that I will be experiencing this adventure with them and I am too. I can't wait to see where this adventure will take me and I know that it will be fun and hard at the same time but in the end I will grow as a person. I know I will, and at the end of the trip I'll feel like I am ready to settle and start my career. And who knows, maybe I'll find someone to marry but now I am not worried about that, right now I just want to live my youth.

My parents and friends are very sad that I will be gone but I will be back. Austin is my home, I grew up here and I have the best friends living in this town. I will not leave, I will be back and I know things will change when I come back but things will change with me being here or not. I just need to set that in my mind. People change, my friends will change. But one thing won't and that's the love that we have for each other. I know that when I come back some will be waiting for me, and some might be gone. It makes me sad but its nothing that I can change.

I want to move to Australia in January 2011 and I only want to be away for about nine months (so I can be back for college football time!!). For the first six months I want to live in Australia and travel around the country and New Zealand and hopefully meet Sean Neesley. For the last three months I am hoping that I will be able to travel around Southeast Asia. Visit Thailand, Phillipines, Vietnam, Laos, India, China, Tibet, Nepal, Himalayans, etc... Travel around the cheap places in Asia. Will probably not see South Korea or Japan, they are too expensive, I'll probably save that trip for whenever I have money.

I just hope God gives me the opportunity to make this trip. He is the only one stopping me from it.

JNip