My heart is racing right now. I mean, really racing. This is it. This is the day. March 25, 2015. I’ve been dreaming about this day since 2011. I remember coming back from my first trip abroad and saying to myself, “I gotta see more of this world.” England and France were the countries that kicked off this journey. Being loved on by my Luton family in England motivated me to really start seeing more of this great, big world.

So in jest, I set a goal:  Visit all seven continents by 30.

And one by one, I  saw them. North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and today I set off for Antarctica.

I’m writing this from the bilioteca (library) in Ushuaia, Argentina. I’ll use their WiFi to call my great-grandmother (101) and my parents before boarding. My dad will probably say

I’m scrambling to write this before my WiFi runs out. I’m at the airport in Paris getting ready to board my flight for NYC. One year in Saudi Arabia really whizzed by. I am overwhelmed by all that God did in one short year. And for this, I am truly grateful.

I’ll post more soon, but I had to take a moment….

As I was writing,  I was asked to check my carry-on bag. 😦 I made it through Riyadh and Bahrain without checking it, but