Some of my friends who know me well know that I love “Traveling”. When I was a little girl growing up in India, I remember telling mom that I want to travel the world. When I grew up I wanted to work in different countries and chose to work for a multinational after I graduated from Engineering. I traveled a lot BUT I had this desire to backpack around Europe.

Thirteen years later, I got a American passport and I excited about the opportunity to travel to many countries without visa obligations.

But tomorrow I begin a journey that will take me around Europe and this came about not because I was inspired by Julia Roberts because I had the intention that came about in a mysterious way.

So, after my car accident, I decided to meet my mom in India and then started to looking for tickets to India. When I found that it would cost me almost the same to take stop over in Europe and get to India, I simply went ahead and put France, Spain and Czech Republic to it.

Next my friend Rachael, mentioned she has a friend who lives in Paris and she could check with her if I could stay with her family. Low and Behold, I have a place in Paris that is ten minutes walking from Eiffel Tower.

Followed by this my friend Shirley Lin and Sana organized a hike to go to mission peak here is Fremont. I meet Naeem who mentioned he has traveled to Spain. He advised me to travel to Granda while I am there and connects me to a friend in Barcelona. I am now heading to Barcelona, Madrid and Granada.

On a separate note, I emailed a friend who is globe trotter and shares the same passion for travel, Nicolay. He sent me pointers on what food to try in Barcelona. These suggestions were from a friend of his who is well acquainted with the city.

From there I am off to India. My mom was excited and had found this wonderful deal to Goa. It was a steal. She checked with me and now we are of to Goa for a price that we could not have even gone a neighboring town. Voila! mom and me in GOA.

Just recently, on a dinner at my place, a friend of mine said if you are planning to be in Prague. You must check out Berlin OR Austria. She said it and I looked over the internet, it is three hours to either place by train and/or car. So, there I put it on my Agenda.

To choose between Vienna and Berlin, I counted on Facebook and my friends Rohit, Angelika and Laura made their suggestions to help me decide.

Now my sister, Arushi, is in Paris when I am in Prague. We chatted to make a meeting possible. Now if we are able to meet that would be fun too.

Finally, my husband who has taken care of the details of trip from updating my iPod, getting international calling on my phone and most importantly supporting me through the adventure I am going for.

I still don’t know how all this will unravel but it is going to be an adventure for me as I step into the unknown.

So, I could have read as many travel articles or journals this program could not have been shaped without the help of the people who were part of the Mastermind of my intention.