88 days.   It’s just a hair longer than the novel, although with the cheat of using primarily air travel, not quite the accomplishment.   Luckily, we aren’t in a race, instead we’re on a voyage.   A long planned and dreamed quest to go everywhere, all at once.   We hoarded Delta Skymiles and packed our little brown bag lunches for years to have the means to make this happen and now we are finally able to take the time to do it right.

We’re leaving the South and traveling continuously Eastward around the globe, touching down in 4 continents, more than a dozen countries, and ending our journey by finally setting foot on my 7th continent!  We’re packing up our lives into 80L backpacks (and causing me severe anxiety when I realized I wouldn’t be able fit even one pair of cute heels in that pretty purple bag unless I wanted to forgo several other basic human needs…) and seeing how many places and experiences we can tackle before real life occurs once more!