Getting ready to go on vacation to Turkey and Greece!
The day had finally arrived.
We were OUT OF HERE!
Trust me, we needed it.
I absolutely love my job and wanted to make sure I didn’t start suffering from burn out and Jill has her own website SF TOURISM TIPS and works incredibly hard on it.
As you may know, the internet in China leaves much to be desired.
It seems to come and go, depending on the whims of some unknown entity, and this makes it quite difficult to be able to keep working on a website that requires a lot of detail, information and access to the USA.
We are essentially blocked from using Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, unless we are on our Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the VPN is much slower than our usual internet feed here in China.
In other words, we needed a break and we needed it now.
We got it.
We got ready for our flight and already were feeling relaxed.
We said our final goodbye to our dear friend, Gulzar, and jumped on the bus. We took it two stops and headed for the Airport Express Subway.
It is a fairly new subway line and only has 3 stops total.
It costs about 5 bucks each to go 45 minutes so it is a heck of a deal.
After we arrive at the airport, we hung out and just relaxed.
We spent a lot of time talking about Jill’s website, as that is going to be how we fund our world travels and live the life we want.
This is going to happen in a few years but we are very much into planning and making sure things work out, as much as possible, how we set them.
Jill has been working on her site for over 4 years and I’ve been editing and helping her with ideas since we met.
It is, to be honest, her baby and I’m just helping but it is becoming more and more of a team effort each day.
It may seem strange, since I have a blog that I update every day, but I don’t like writing factual stories based on research. I enjoy writing fiction and making stories come alive (although, as far as I know, everything I’ve written on this blog is absolutely true).
So, Jill writes her website and I edit it and it seems we make a great team.
In so many ways since we also make a great team traveling, supporting each other emotionally and financially, and in pretty much every other way I can imagine a couple would want to support each other.
i’m not sure if you’ve traveled with your partner, but if you haven’t, you will learn much more about each other, in a week or two, than you will in years of living a stable life at home.
I think this is because each choice, moment and change happens so quickly, and so often, that you quickly learn how the other reacts, how they think, and what their strengths and weaknesses are without having to wait years for a stressful event.
Jill and I have been to Shanghai, Mongolia, Malaysia and Singapore twice and we met only 8 days before I left for China. She arrived 1.5 months later without knowing anyone other than me here. And she only truly knew me through emails, my blog, and Skype.
Talk about a leap of faith.
We both believe deeply in planning while also living in the present.