The Journey

Kermit Billings would have been born Trevor Billings. On the day he was born his parents, Thomas and Mary Billings, thought he looked like Kermit The Frog. So instead Trevor became his middle name. Despite what a lot of people believed, Kermit Trevor Billings was written on his birth certificate.

With a name like Kermit, he could not avoid attention. Some children made fun of him, while others thought it was cool. Unlike his namesake however, Kermit never had much of a ‘group.’ He wasn’t a loner, but as a kid he had interests that didn’t extend to the other children.

As Kermit grew older, he began enjoying travel and adventure. For his senior trip in high school, he went to Washington DC. He saw the different monuments, and museums. He absolutely loved it.

He did, however, learn that the planning of a trip was more fun than the actual trip. The fantasizing and daydreaming about how things would look to his own naked eye just seemed to not be matched. As he traveled more and more, he found that the planning was always better than the actual trip.

Lizzy, his girlfriend and he traveled to Spain for spring break their junior year of college, Kermit knew the planning had been better. It was a great trip that would only be rivaled by their honeymoon to Santorini. Kermit knew, however, where the real thrill lay.

Lizzy and Kermit spent much of their free time discussing travel. They discussed different potential destinations, and experiences. Kermit however kept one from her. He didn’t tell her about his dream destination. It was one that he was certain was beyond compare. Fiji. He could not imagine a more serene, beautiful, and perfect place on the face of the Earth.

His imagination, and pictures, and stories compiled in his brain. They created a fantasy oasis on the planet unlike anything else he could dream of. Knowing this, Kermit assumed that this meant that there was no place on Earth that could disappoint him as much as Fiji.