why in the heck?!

I think the best answer to this question is "why in the heck NOT?!" There is so much world out there to explore and life is short when you get down to it. Both of us have always loved to travel, and since we met in college, we had always tossed around the idea of traveling together, though definitely not on such a grand scale. For many years, we couldn’t even convince each other to visit the other one’s city or meet anywhere in the US. Then Kelli ended up in Atlanta for work (yay KPMG!) last June and Rutvik ended up meeting her in Europe for ten days later last summer. We visited Paris and Munich (OKTOBERFEST!) and spent the nights in a hotel, airport, tent, train station, and 18-bunk hostel room. It was a blast (well, except for the camping where we nearly froze to death) but we realized that we definitely hadn't satisfied our travel bugs with that trip. There was still way too much world left to experience. After we got back, we'd casually joke about jumping ship and running around the world for awhile when we had a rough day, but deep down it was something we both really hoped to do someday. Finally, one night, we said "you know, what if?" After several rather lengthy discussions and plenty of cold feet, we decided that if we were going to do it, there was no time like the present. And so we're off...