Mi Vida Loca...: The Good the Bad and the...well, the Truth

While traveling friends have sent me articles written and featured on sources from Vogue to Buzzfeed. The articles are partially related to what Bryan and I have been doing the past 8 months. Articles about people who drop everything and traveled, or the secrets of how to quit your job and live out of a suitcase seeing the world before you're 30.

People are so curious about the good, the bad, and mostly the truth about traveling with your partner.
Today I hope to share that with you.
The thought of it is all so romantic right?
For Bryan and I well: we had this dream, we planned, worked hard, had a beautiful wedding...Then pulled wildcard of leaving the comfort of our jobs and homes to live out of a backpack while traveling through parts of South America then back here to live out of our Honda CRV with our Australian Shepperd to climb and camp through parts of the States.

Ok, ok, yeah I guess that does sound pretty romantic...

There is a lot of good to this long Honeymoon: the places we saw, treks we did, people we met, unforgettable sunsets, and most of all the bond between us grow stronger. We just discussed the other day that even though we love sharing out stories with other people that this experience will always just be his and mine.
Forever ours will be the sights we stared at in silence, the sounds we enjoyed together, the tastes of different foods, the hitchhiking, the awkward Micro rides, the hike to greet the new year in Copacabana, and the friendships we made along the way.
No matter how many stories, videos, or pictures we share. Those experiences will always be unique to us.

Lets not fool ourselves though, to every rad journey it's unavoidable to have some bad moments. Like the struggles of a language barrier, or shit water pressure, cold water showers, illnesses like a 12 day long fever, or a chill inducing belly ache after a free meal on the mountain. Or how about foggy conditions at two of probably the most sought out sights on our trip. In all honesty though, all those bad moments were overshadowed by epic times. I mean life wouldn't be fun if you dwell on the negatives anyways, right?
We worked through almost not getting on our flight at LAX, we worked through translation issues, we worked through a never ending fever (sweat it out B!) and we laughed through others.
Good or bad, there isn't anyone I would have rather shared those moments with.

The truth is I didn't discover some sort of secret to life or a magical marriage trick. I feel like that part is always a bit disappointing to people, but lets be realistic, that doesn't actually exist. There isn't a secret or anything magical, its just called being real. Be real to who you are, what you want, and who you want to love. At the end of it all that is the truth to the good and the bad.

Life is what you make of it and it only happens once, appreciate it now, be happy now, love now, do the things you want NOW!