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Winding_Road

Plans are what keep us going. Spontaneity is wonderful and opens up bundles of opportunities you otherwise wouldn’t have, but spontaneity is irregular. You can’t constantly sustain spontaneity. If you can, then in essence it becomes your plan.

Planning trips is the best way to get through a monotonous Monday, or even just a regular I-woke-up-and-came-to-work kind of day. I have four big trips lined up in the next year, with a few other possibilities presenting themselves in between. When I think about the future, I am filled with so much joy that I will be out in the beautiful world experiencing new cultures and visiting ancient wonders of the world. These trips take the pain out of day to day life, the struggle with responsibility and the ever present how-much-money-do-I-have issue. Trips are typically expensive, so the last one doesn’t really make sense at face value. However, when you…

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