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GYPSY: (noun) One inclined to a nomadic, unconventional way of life. The first time I traveled alone I was 4. My mom pinned a note to my dress then put me on a plane from Atlanta to L.A. to visit my dad for the summer. That must have marked the beginning of my insatiable wanderlust because I can't seem to get enough of running away from home. In the mean time, I've spent my life between a career in the media and years in the hospitality industry. My independence has kept me single but that's a part of life when your first love is travel. I've been robbed in Australia and slept on a park bench in Amsterdam, but at the end of the day, I was on the road and that's where I'm most at home.

Monday, February 26, 2007

First Big Test



I can't believe I am actually doing this, but I have decided to apply to be a Trip Leader for a company called Backroads, based right here in Berkeley. www.backroads.com

If chosen, I will be flown to Italy and France for training, which will begin in April. In just one week, I need to learn how to be a bike mechanic, brush up on my foreign language skills and make a presentation about something I have never done! AUGH! Anyway, I really don't have my hopes up, but I think it will just be a good idea to see how the process is done, meet other like-minded guides and travelers and practice! So, I have gone to the web to get my biking material and dug out my old language books to brush up on Italian, Spanish and French. I hope that if I do get the gig, I will be based in Italy, but I'll take any European city at this point! If this doesn't work out, I will still continue to work at the two "P's" and the other "P" and save and get to Italy in the Spring and then work the summer, hit the Burn for my birthday and then by this time next year be chasing my dreams and a flock of boys all around Europe!

Ciao!

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