Sorry I’m late- Busy day today! I wanted to include videos today before writing this because going to the World Cup was sooo much fun and I wanted to share those fun moments with all of you. Whether you like soccer or not, It’s still the only sport that can single- handedly unite the world for 1 tournament. Might I also add that USA fans travel deep and follow the team wherever they go? Next World Cup is in Qatar in winter of 2022 but is currently on pause for qualifying because of the Coronavirus. I still would still love to go- it’s worth every penny!

On the first trip, my brothers and I backpacked through Europe for the 2006 World Cup, while also catching a few soccer games in the early stages of the tournament. The cool thing was that I was able to meet my friend Oscar and his two friends while in Germany. I swear, some of the best traveling stories with Oscar were during that trip haha! The other countries that we also went to visit was Zurich, Switzerland and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Can’t wait to go back to Europe and visit more new countries!

The next one I went to was 8 years later for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil! The first weeks of the trip were with my good friends since high school, Nassim and Mariko. Nassim had some family friends in Sao Paulo, so we were able to save money and travel more often because of that. On the last week of my trip, I met up with Jerry after Nassim and Mariko flew back home. Jerry and I really wanted to go to a game together before I had to fly back home, so we had to cough up around $2,200 for 2 tickets….That’s a ridiculous amount of money to spend but was totally worth it and would do it all over again if I had could!

I can go on and on about both trips…but I’ll just end it by saying that both of them are part of the best days of my life. My #30daysoftabije is coming to and end- Are you gonna miss me?

See you tomorrow morning,