Now that I've been out of college and working for two years I finally have the means to do some traveling. Unfortunately I don't have the free time I used to two years ago, it took some hard work, planning and creative thinking to find it. After stashing away my vacation hours like a pack rat, and working out deals with my awesome just in case they read this ;-) bosses I managed to piece together 36 days (16 days-accrued vacation, 12 days-weekends & holidays, 5 days-borrowed vacation, and 3 days-advanced work time) so that I could go on a decent vacation. Now for those of you reading this in Europe where you enjoy 5-6 weeks of vacation every year you might be laughing at loops I had to jump through to get my diminutive 36
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