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8 months from now where will I be? What will I be doing? Who will I be meeting? Will there be hot dogs there?

My mind is racing with a million questions and it’s not just me. Since I announced I would be going on the race so many people I talk to have been asking me questions that I don’t have answers to. There are so many things that I don’t know. I don’t know the date I’ll be leaving or the date I’ll be returning home.I don’t know the order of countries I’ll be traveling to or the types of places I’ll be staying in.

I was so relieved when I was contacted by Christina, a former world racer, who said she’d love to meet me and talk about the race. I wrote down a million questions I had for her about what I should expect on my 11 month trip around the world. I had so many expectations of just meeting with her, but none of them were fulfilled. Not that I was disappointed by what she had to say, but… I was a bit disappointed. She really didn’t have any answers for me that could ease my mind. She told me that she switched teams several times throughout the race and often didn’t find out until the last minute, she said that she found out at launch that the first country she thought she was going to had been switched and that she didn’t find out her return date home until a couple weeks before. I sat across the table from her with a mouthful of pizza and tried not to look crushed.

If you don’t know this about me, I’ll tell you that I’m the type of person who always likes to know what’s ahead so that I can prepare the way that I feel about it. I realize that is ridiculous, because inevitably once the thing comes that I’ve been expecting I don’t feel anything like I thought I would when I was expecting it. Christina did tell me one very helpful piece of information: If you want to know what to expect, expect that nothing will be the way you expected it to be.

So for now I will stop worrying about the things that I don’t know and focus on the things that I do.

I know that God has a plan for me and that he has promised to take care of me and not abandon me. He has plans to give me the future that I hope for (Jeremiah 29:11.)

I know that I will be traveling to 11 countries and I will be gone for approximately 11 months. I also know that I have a lot of money to raise in order to actually go on this incredibly adventurous and unexpected journey, so if you’d like to help a sista out, please click on the support me! link on the left side of my blog and donate whatever amount you feel compelled to give 🙂

I promised there’d be more google images and here they are:

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