Post 2: Preparing this insanity

Lots of people comment in various different ways when you tell them you're about to do a trip like this by yourself. first thing they ask, when they have calmed down a bit after freaking out like an elephant who had just seen a mouse, was how I prepared myself.

To be completely honest, I didn't prepare too much. Intentionally cause I feel like it would take the adventure out of it a bit. It's like having a plan for every small detail, which is kind of what I want to avoid.

The only thing I really wanted to have was a place to stay in NY. Not only because it is really convenient having a roof over your head in such a huge city, but it made me feel more comfortable starting like this :D. So it happens I found someone thanks to a friend of mine (Leyla) who had contacts. 

Furthermore I did not want to have the feeling after that I missed out on a lot of stuff or did not visit something cause I was not aware of its existence. Resulting in an evening of pleasure reading other road trippers' blogs and comments on TripAdviser a.s. which did not provided me with a lot of new info. After some good laughs about the stories I've read my conclusion was to just go from NY to Philadelphia, further down to Washington. Hoping for some good refferences from locals while I am going my way down is my game plan.

Wish me luck with a smile :)

Greets,

Lenn

Post 1: Starting the trip

Starting a trip is easy. Let's see if I can confirm this statement after 3 months.

I have a list. A list that I created after seeing the film: 'The bucket list' (great one!). Same idea as the 2 old men do but still slidly different, I made one with all countries I ever want to visit during the period of this great adventure I call 'Life'. Ever since I was a kid I fell in love with NY. Never been there, only by watching and reading so much about it made me want to go. So I just did. Well I will in a small week. Just booked a flight return ticket for the maximum amount of time the States allow to go with a Tourist Visa, 90 days.

As if this was not enough, a combination of my very impulsive and adventurous side cooperated and wanted to make things more interesting. So I decided (after the fligh was booked for about 30 min) to go to Miami (2 500 km) without paying for accomodation nor transportation. So there I was booking 2 flights in 1 hour. After all who would want to go back and walk the same  2500 km all over again ;). Walking this journey would be the overall idea, lifting and asking for rides will be the outcome.

I'll keep you posted :)

See you all soon.

Greets,
Lenn