Planning is in full swing...

     I texted my cousin Doug on November 22..”Hey Doug. Would you want to go on a trip with me sometime in January? I’ve been trying to plan something”. It was true, I was trying to plan a trip with little success. It was complicated. I wanted to go somewhere, anywhere. But the companion was always the issue. I would ask friends to go, but the timing was always off, or the money was always too tight for both parties. My friends still had classes to attend and I had a job that paid next to nothing. So how was I going to ever get somewhere? Then my mom suggested I ask my world-traveling cousin to embark on a journey, and his response? “Ugh, yes!” 
     So a month later, we have flights booked, hostels planned, and some activities mapped out. After some discussion, brainstorming, and research, we decided on Costa Rica and Panama, the Panama Canal being the major allure. 
We asked our other cousin Mallory to come and after her own research and arguments with her fiancé, Mallory and Jimmy will be joining us. 

     Sometimes its the trips that spring up that are the most fun and fulfilling; there is no time for over analyzing and complications.