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Notice…given.

At 9AM this morning I approached my manager with what would otherwise be a trivial invitation to chat, “Do you have a minute?” I was holding an innocuous white sheet of paper in my hand.  No threat on a normal day. But today was special. The paper I was holding had a simple message typed…

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How many pairs of underwear?!

While watching my beloved Gators pull one out against Texas A&M this weekend, I began to wonder about what I would need to take with me on this trip.  Her and I have often joked about things we would or would not take with us, but I hadn’t seriously considered what I would require for…

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Budgeting or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Excel

Planning this trip has been one of the more difficult things for me to do budget-wise.  Having never traveled this extensively at one time, it has been tricky to estimate what costs we will incur along the way.  Some expenses like airline tickets and hotel costs can be found online, but with our itinerary still…

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Go west, young man (and woman)

Our trip will begin in Fiji.  Two weeks ago we purchased our tickets to Australia.  LAX->SYD by way of NAD (Nadi, Fiji).  We discovered these tickets because of the price, but we were intrigued by the layover.  Fiji.  Her remembered the scene in “The Truman Show” when Jim Carrey’s character said, “You can’t get any…

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Compelled to Travel

We’re newlyweds who have squirreled away enough money over the last year and a half to feel confident we can quit our day jobs and travel for an extended period of time.  This trip is something we have both dreamed about for the last decade and are finally getting the chance to experience it.  Our…

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