get out of the country at least once a year

I’ve upgraded the goal to: Leave the country at least once a year, my city at least once a month. Big scale and smaller scale covered.

I just got back from Italy. It reminded me how much I love traveling and how much I don’t like traveling in groups of more than three. South or Central America later this year working for an NGO.

I guess I have already completed this goal for this year. I went to Jamaica in April. Last year I went to Honduras, as I did the year before. So, I guess I’m 3 for 3.

I would like to continue with this goal though.

I’ve been out of the country now every year (sometimes 4-6 times a year) for 8 years…and as corny as the quote is, there is some truth to it. If you’re an extravert and you travel often… it’s fairly easily to find something in common with anyone… just based on where you’ve been.

and hopefully El Salvador or Africa later in the year. I should ammend this goal to be like Erik’s that adds “and leave my city once a month”. I think that will be easily accomplished for me anyhow. Maybe I should add to the goal “and visit Seattle once a month- on business of course.”

I make sure I leave the country at least once a year. It is easier to do when you have family dotted all around the world. It keeps you sane. For me it goes on the list with school fees, insurance bills and the like, it has become a necessity.

This has to have a destination and a date about a year in advance. An iron-clad date that you can work for. Of course once you have the money to buy the ticket that needs to be done, because then there’s almost no turning back, no excuses.
There’s a Gandhi quote on the side of my webpage here that says:
What we think, that we become.
This makes me think, I hope that someone has compiled a whole book of Gandhi’s sayings because I’d like to check that book out from the library.