Hi reader/viewer/tweeter/traveler/fan/ray of light (you’re more than one thing, why should I box you in?).  I’m Courtney and I’m also more than one thing.

Once, confined to a New York City cubicle I daydreamed of a life less regular.  One without constraints, without punch cards, without pant suits, and without rules.  Then in 2007 I quit my job to find said life and moved to Italy solo.  It was magical.  I started a blog.

My initial findings were anything but predictable:  real chicks do eat pasta, not all toilets have seats, and somewhere inside me was a new me.  A me that doesn’t need a television or someone telling me what to do (“Excuse me, could you please file my Awesome notes on my Awesome Idea in my Awesome Idea folder, please?”).  I found a me that can consume an entire jar of Nutella in one sitting.  The me that likes bicycles with baskets and fumbling through foreign languages and seeing the look on people’s faces when you tell them that they control their own destiny.

Ok, I got carried away.

But this new life of new-age travel journalism DOES suit me. I have spent the last three years feeling gloriously free, professionally satisfied, and pitifully underpaid. And what more can you want out of your twenties?  Besides dancing in drum circles and seeing how long you can feed yourself on supermarket samples (because those are good things to want out of life, too).

I don’t feel bad for inspiring others to quit their jobs or for wearing spandex as pants.  I do feel bad for people who are in an perpetual state of waiting…for what?  Why let your preexisting expectations of “grown up” hold you back?  Dance more and extract yourself from the cube. I’ve tried it. You’ll love it. (Psst: It’s MY Awesome Idea. Suck on that, Corporate America.)

Get the skinny on my big fat adventure here or get the scoop directly from the source—me!—at Courtney@jetsetzero.tv.