Welcome

I’m starting this blog while sitting on a beach on the island of Koh Samui. If you would have asked me six months ago if I could imagine this is where I’d be, I would have said no way – and yet sitting here it feels so right.

I had a good enough job where I managed the day-to-day logistics of getting a clinical trial setup for a cancer therapy. We were doing good work, I generally liked my boss and coworkers, believed in the project, but I needed something new.

Plane about to land on Koh Samui

After much deliberation I decided on weekend in April that Monday morning I would tender my resignation letter and leave when my current contract was up at the end of June.

And so, after three trips to my bosses office that morning I tendered my resignation. The question was – what next?

Did I find a new job in Edmonton? Did I move to a new city? Did I start living in a cardboard box down by the river? In the weeks that followed I sent a few applications out but didn’t find anything that particularly screamed – this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. The one thing that I kept coming back to is that I wanted to travel.

I had been on a few amazing trips over the years and had seen some incredible places, but always had school or a job that I had to come back to.  Perhaps this was the time when I truly had the freedom to go where and when I wanted. So I ceased job searching and set out to wrap up my life in Edmonton.

I decided I would leave for SE Asia in the fall and see where the road takes me. This blog aims to outline these travels. Thanks for coming along on the ride and don’t forget to the sunscreen!