So it's been quite some time since our last post, and you may be wondering what we've been up to. We have slowed down the pace a little from the first part of our trip, but it has still been an adventure, of its own kind.

After Egypt it was off to Nepal, 3 flights stopping in 2 different middle eastern countries... what could go wrong.

How often do we truly feel pure joy? I would argue it isn't enough. I want find more moments in my life where I feel like a child chasing bubbles in the backyard on a warm summer day.

Our travels through Portugal have been amazing, but also challenging at times. As a couple, Holly and I have had our challenges and our ups and downs. Times of feeling a bit home sick to times of feeling a bit actually sick. Portugal's beautiful landscape has provided an immersive analogy for these ebbs and flows that we have been riding through our adventure.

Time change and sleep deprevation make for some strange decisions. So we developed a strategy to give us the best change of making good choices.

The Notebook Project was an idea that came we started planning for our trip. The idea was to randomly leave notebooks in indiscriminate locations throughout our epic adventure with the goal that people would find them and write in them. In a nutshell, it's an inversion of the message in a bottle idea. Instead of one message floating in the ocean searching for a recipient, it's a bottle, floating around the world in search of messages.