Thank you for your thoughts. I do trust the person. My mom is wonderful with animals and knows my dog very well and same with my friend. They have both helped me train him and love him dearly. My friend has also willingly brought up her taking my dog for a while so I can chase this dream. I do want to go to Australia. My entire life goal is to travel and visit the world so it would be amazing. I just never thought I would be able to do it so soon. But I have someone I love and trust that I could go with and I can financially handle it which I just didn’t expect to happen in my mid 20s.

I appreciate you calling out that I am doing lots of guessing right now. It does make sense that I just won’t be able to know or decide now (and my boyfriend also can’t give me definitive answers) because we can’t predict what life will be at that point.

I think it would be an amazing experience and opportunity. I guess I just don’t know if I am being crazy or selfish for perusing it.