Travel Planning Resources

In 2008, I left for 11 months of to travel and volunteer around the world — half of my travels were solo while I shared the other half with friends and family. In the years since that initial trip, I have continued traveling solo and I also added a tween-aged child to the mix in 2011. Over the years and along the way I have learned a lot that has shaped and changed the nature of who and am I how I travel. Below I have interwoven my first-hand advice about how I prepped and planned for my initial one-year trip so you can adjust from there, and I also give a broader perspective of links, resources and advice from throughout the travel and volunteer communities