Backpacking for a Month!

A dream is coming true! A bucket list item will be crossed off by the end of February! I am traveling for just under a month with one of my best friends, Dana, and her husband, Hayden! They are an amazing power duo who quit their jobs nearly two years ago and are taking on the full-time travel lifestyle.  At the time I’m writing this, they officially checked off country 75! Wow! Congratulations! 

I am so blessed to have a job where I can manipulate my schedule in a way that allows me to take so much time off, and what better use of that time than to travel?! I’ve always wanted to be a “backpacker,” or at least get the experience of living out of a backpack for an extended period of time, just hopping around to different places. And now I get to do exactly that, in one of my favorite places in the world: Central America! 

I lived in El Salvador for nearly two years from 2014-2016, and I loved every minute of it. That country will always have a special place in my heart, and I will always go back. So, naturally, when my friends shared their travel itinerary to Central America, I knew I wanted to meet up with them. I’d been telling them for years I’d join them on their travels, but it hadn’t manifested until now! They’ve been traveling off and on since they met, about 12 years ago, in a pub in Ireland of all places! And now, finally, after years of big talk, we are making this epic meetup a reality!

The next several blog posts will be a diary of my travels with Dana and Hayden as we traverse through Central America, exploring Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and a TBD fourth country. Gotta leave a little suspense and surprise :). If you’d like to see more pictures, visit my Facebook, where I’ll be posting albums of our adventures!

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