let's try something new..... again

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ok, so i was recently inspired by a friend (thanks shari) to get off my ass n travel! after hearing her run down of planned trips for the year, i realized, i needed to get on my ish already lol. im 25, and haven't really been anywhere. i've done Wisconsion for a busniess trip, ATL for fam, FL for Disney (twice) Norfolk, VA, Charlotte, NC, Jersey which doesn't really count as a New Yorker, lol, aaaaand that's pretty much it! oh i went to Canada once lol on n Boston n PA n DC n MD. ok so I've been a few places, but nothing really exciting. I think you get what I mean. No vacation destinations. I want to go jet skiing, snorkeling, hiking, all the touristy stuff. i have no shame in that. i don't need to look cool, like "im here every summer." i just want to do it all and have a safe, fun time in the process.

so far my only REAL hold ups are funds and friends. I've always been worried that I can't afford a nice trip and then who am i going to go with? i started with my first roadblock: funds. i decided to do a little research. there are plenty of great package deals to go all the places i want to go! i've been missing out lol. next, friends. i have a lot of associates and accquaintes, but not everyone is for everything. i love people for what they bring to my life, but that doesn't mean i can just pick up and travel with just anyone! if you really know me, you know that i pretty much suck with keeping in contact. so for the people whom i haven't known for 20 plus or 10 plus years, i don't even know how they TRUTHFULLY feel about me. friends like that (whom you've known for half your life) you can go a year or few without speaking to, and pick up with no love lost. i don't call anyone, nor am i the greatest at returning calls. its never anything personal, im just more of a loner. i like people, and i think about a lot of people, i just don't like talking all the time (which for someone who sure nuff can talk your ear off, is quite the anomaly, lol). i guess i should blog about that too.... "friends".

anywho, i decided, i'd try to go somewhere every other month, and i'd travel alone to some of my destinations, and meet up with people i know when i get there. first on my list of destinations...... New Orleans for Mardi Gras!!!!

This trip, i will be making alone. i've been invited to stay with a friend that lives down there, so i figured, why not go when it'd be the most expensive to stay? Mardi Gras it is lol. i also have another friend who should be in the area at the time, so i definitely won't be alone during my trip. my time off has been approved at work, and I'm booking my flight first week of February! SO HYPE!

next is Vegas in May!

i def can't run around Vegas alone, so I have to wrangle up an entourage. i think my biggest issue is my fear of the unknown. what I DO know, is that you never really know someone until you have to live with them, or until you're in a stressful situation with them. I think my issue is i don't want to invite someone to go, who will then make the trip anything less than enjoyable. i like to spend. but i'll spend within my means. i don't want to go with a prudish miser. im not your mom. im not paying your way. nor do i want to stay in all day/night. i also don't want to go with a loosey goosey who'll have half the guys down there with us in our room. you'd be surprised who does what, and i don't want that surprise. so, so far, i've asked two cousins and one friend. hopefully they will come. this should be an awesome trip. strip club at 8am anyone?? lol

in July..... my first cruise!!!

this (like all my other trips, lol) im VERY excited about!! i'll be taking this one with one of my best friends Alicia and her family. it's going to stop through Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. *SNAP!!!* i've always heard great things about cruises, and i ALWAYS have a great time with Alicia and her fam. my thing is, i've always been kinda afraid of the whole cruise thing because of Titanic. laugh if you want, but it actually happened, it wasn't a story based on fiction. it is truth people. jokes aside, it really does weird me out but, not enough for me to pass on what i know will be a great trip.

in september.... Miami!

I really wanted to avoid going down there when i knew all the hood was gona be there (who wants to feel like you're chillin in Brooklyn with palm trees, when u can really go to BK for free?), but the price is right, and I'm getting the Monday off for Labor day as it is. So far, I'm taking this trip alone, and meeting up with two of my friends when i get there. i haven't seen both of these chicks in sooo long, and that alone is gona make for odee amazing times. i plan to do the touristy thing during the last couple of days, or the first couple of days.... prob the last. spa, areas of intrest close by, a wee bit of shopping, swimming with dolphins, that kind of thing. but, partiying n hangin w my girls when i get there is gona be uber fun :) :)

so far, those are the trips i mentally have planned so far. the only thing i can see stopping me is funds. i HAVE TO SAVE!! that means i can't randomly pick up n blow money on random/reckless crap! i don't want to really shop again until i have to buy an outfit or two for my trip. i have plenty nuff shoes n clothes where i don't NEED anything. aside from unexpected expenses, i don't see why i can't make this happen. i just have to budget.

so this is my plea to you....

SEND ME YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT!!

every once in a while, check in and see if im on my monthly target to saving for the next trip. have i requested the days off? did i book my accomodations? all that jazz.

i plan on doing a vision board across from my bed so that every day i have a reminder of what im actually saving for. there's nothing like motivation. i know i can do this.


DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS? ANY SURE FIRE WAYS TO SAVE? EXPERIENCE WITH VISION BOARDS? SUGGESTIONS FOR PLACES TO STAY? WHERE TO FIND THE BEST DEALS? ANYTHING I SHOULD DEFINITELY AVOID? TALK TO ME!

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