My blog, Living the Dream, was inspired based on my backpacking around Europe in May 2008. One person I ended up traveling with had been living abroad for months prior to traveling and was going to travel for as many months after. Whenever he described it he would say "Living the Dream." After about a week of travels he had everyone saying the phrase whenever we had a moment that truly inspired or surprised us. As you can imagine, we said that phrase a lot. While initially planning for this trip I came across many travel blogs dedicated to round the world travel, however none had every bit of information I was looking for. For the purposes of this blog, I am detailing my journey in every facet in order to convince the leery and aid those planning their own round the world experience.