Wayne's World Analysis

Adventure Waits
“The purpose of live is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, American Politician and the First Lady of the United States
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In the 1993 comedy Wayne’s World, Mike Meyers (Wayne) dreams he meets Jim Morrison of the Doors. Morrison informs Wayne he is destined to put on a concert. When Wayne asks how he is supposed to get the bands to come, Morrison tells him, “If you book them, they will come.”
Take the first step and the rest will fall into place. Sometimes taking the first step is all that is necessary to put the rest of the trip into motion.
Whether long or short-term, traveling is simple. Choose a place to go, decide upon
After several long conversations in which he regaled my with stories of bringing back goods to sell to profit from his trip, I began to believe I too could jet halfway around the world. If it worked out, traveling once in a while would become my occupation and I would live happily ever after, with scantily clad Asian girls at my beck and call. Although I was interested in traveling to Indonesia, I had always wanted to go to Thailand to train in Muay Thai. 
The Los Angeles ran travel ads every Sunday, and in the course of searching for a decent fare, I came across several companies in need of air couriers. Courier companies use passenger’s check-in baggage for their customer’s documents and in return allow you to travel for a highly reduced fare. The up side is a cheap fare, the downside is the courier company tells you what time to be at the airport, what time to depart, where to meet their representative in the airport and the date to return. Missing an appointment meant being blacklisted from their company and purchasing a new ticket at full fare. Being late or staying longer is not an option but flying as a courier was a good gig and it was in my best interest to avoid screwing it
My first ticket, roundtrip from Los Angeles to Bangkok, cost just $200. 
In the next year, I traveled to Bangkok four more times, once for $50, and visited Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Pattaya, Koh Samet, and several other cities I loved the energy of Bangkok and the laid back, Mai Pen Rai mentality of the Thais. My appetite for the country became insatiable and after the first three trips, my thoughts turned to moving to the country. There was very little holding me back but I had yet to figure out how to earn a living while on the