New Gear!

My birthday has just passed and in preparation for my trip and wanderings my sister gave me the coolest gadget I think I’ve heard about for hikers, campers, or travelers on the go.

It’s called Spot Gen3.

Find Me Spot

What is this awesome thing you may ask?

It’s a satellite GPS messenger that can do everything from track your travels to initiate a Search and Rescue operation as long as you’ve got a view of the sky (and charged batteries of course…)

My favorite feature, above and beyond the obvious safety inherit in the SAR capability, is that with a single push of a button I can send a check-in message complete with coordinates and/or a map link for my friends and loved ones to know where I am – and most importantly that I arrived safely.

Two days and counting to touchdown in London and I can hardly wait!

~ Sif

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Travel in Progess…

Hi everyone!

Thanks for finding my blog!

I’m currently in the process of preparing for my trip that will begin with my flight from Seattle to London in early November so until then, sit back and relax while I go through the process of clearing out my place here in the States and prepare for a trip I’ve been looking forward to since I was a kid 😀

A bit about me and my upcoming adventure:

I’m a writer and wandering spirit that has traveled extensively within the United States but other than a pair of trips to Victoria, B.C. has never been out of the country so I’m excited (to say the least) to finally make my life-long goal of venturing to Europe and the U.K. a reality.  No joke, I’ve wanted to visit at least Ireland and the U.K. before I died and since I’m not getting any younger and it would be hard to be broker, I’m finally going for it.

My ticket is purchased and my plans are set with no end in sight and no intention of returning to the U.S. if I can at all avoid it…even though that goal will require quite a bit of creative travel and adherence to travel time restrictions.

I understand the premise of the Schengen agreement but still…lame.

Makes it a bit hard to hit 1) Carnival in Venice; 2) the tulip field in bloom in the Netherlands; and 3) the lavender bloom in Provence; all in the same year but where there’s a will there’s a way and I’m determined to figure it out though I see a lot of bouncing between the U.K. and the Schengen countries in my future.

Though I’m certain there will be enough complaining about that in the future.

For now I have packing to organize!

Until next time,

Sif

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