I’m taking a 2-month trip around the world with my girlfriend Jane to celebrate the gap between graduation and our move to the Bay Area. When I say around the world, I actually mean it—we’re flying westward until we wrap back around to San Francisco!

We built the trip around two main destinations: Japan, which we had been wanting to visit together regardless; and Croatia, where my family is meeting up with several others for a grad school reunion. Everything booked in between turned out to just be convenient, and we couldn’t be more excited. That is, if we make it all the way!