fancy meeting you here

i kinda thought that blogs were for the settled. ya know, those with babies, a house, a husband or at LEAST a fiancee. well, i have none of those things, unless you consider marley my baby (let's be honest, it's not too much of a stretch) or you think that because i live in a house, it's MY house (minor detail that this 23 year old "professional" lives in the same homes with her parents as she did when she was 9). BUT, as i was thinking in the shower, which is where i (like many others) do some of my best thinking - i was reliving yet another comical little airplane scenario that occurred as a result of my cross-country travels and i thought "this is funny stuff! maybe i SHOULD have a blog." i thought, "i'll tell these funny little stories (with minor embellishments if necessary. i mean, i don't want to BORE you) and maybe even give tips on travel. i could be your ambassador from TSA, except less disgruntled and better dressed :) besides, i DID discover that i was most like carrie bradshaw when i took that "what Sex and the City character are you" quiz on Facebook. that means something, right?  ta daaaa - my blog, V is for Voyage!

i sell bugs. yeah, you read that correctly. i sell butterflies, ladybugs, mealworms, ants, earthworms... you name it, if it crawls or wriggles, i sell it. but details can really be as pretty as your imagination and interpretive powers permit... for example, i could say "i am the event coordinator and the assistant marketing director for the largest commercial grower of butterflies in the country. i travel constantly, stay in great hotels (most of the time) and eat at top restaurants. my current focus, when i'm not jet-setting, is a corporate 40th anniversary celebration that i am coordinating in new york..." but really, we all know that i just sell bugs. now if i did all that but it was as an employee for Michael Kors, then that would be another story entirely. for now, i'll start with the butterflies. 

i thought that i might warn you, or inform you, or ask permission - wait, why am i asking YOUR permission, this is MY blog - anyway, what i'm trying to say is that while i usually find myself in the midst of an amusing scenario while traveling, i do believe that some of my most entertaining anecdotes lie behind me. therefore, i will occasionally regress to some of my classic tales. maybe during a dry spell, when there hasn't been much traversing in the world of insects i'll revisit the time i was confined to my window seat on an airplane, land locked on the runway for 7 hours; or the time i was stranded in girona, spain because my roommate read the train schedule incorrectly; or when i hitchhiked in costa rica; was verbally accosted by an airport shuttle driver in chicago; or when i sang on broadway in nashville with local guitar pickers; held at (water) gunpoint on a street in paris; or when i was trapped at the running of the bulls for 2 days with 10 of my students...

more often than not, when i'm traveling, i have those moments when i look around and think "is anyone getting this?!?!?!" so i figured, why not write about it and let people get a peek. one of my many "dream jobs" is to be a travel writer... dream job? check!