ATLANTA , Georgia ( CNN ) -- Every year , I take at least one vacation out of the country to get my international travel fix . And this time , I 'm taking you with me . The travel bug is a forever-itch that leaves you longing to wake up in a foreign country , Jarrett Bellini says . No , not literally . Sit down . This year , YOU can weigh in on where I go and what I do once I get there . We 're calling it : Let 's Ruin Jarrett 's Vacation ! By adding your comments below or sharing your ideas on CNN.com Live 's Facebook page , you can send me to either Argentina , Greece , South Africa or Turkey . The destination that gets the most positive response is where I 'll go . And to make it more fun , I wo n't even find out where I 'm heading until I actually get to the airport this Sunday , August 30 . There , I will tear open an envelope , read the results for the first time , and then head to my departure gate -- hopefully with at least a few articles of appropriate clothing . Once I get to wherever it is you send me , I 'll be blogging on CNN.com and and checking in from time to time on CNN.com Live . By sharing your ideas on Facebook , you 'll be able to guide many aspects of this vacation . You call the shots . And I 'll cry myself to sleep at night wondering why I agreed to work on vacation and let other people plan it . I suppose , now , you might want a little background on why I 'd actually want to do this . I mean , besides the fact that clearly , I 'm a glutton for punishment . Really , though , I think I just like a challenge . In the fall of 2003 , after an entire month of fruitlessly waiting by my phone to hear back about an entry-level position with CNN , I finally gave up hope and took my apparent job snub as some sort of cosmic sign from the Slacker Gods . I decided , then , that the only reasonable course of action was to buy a plane ticket to Europe to spend the next three months running around with my backpack , trying -- again , quite fruitlessly -- to meet foreign chicks . Though not quite a rucksack Casanova , I did come back from these magical three months with a far greater ability to entertain myself in a completely new place among absolute strangers . ( Granted , for me , this can be accomplished by the presence of shiny objects . ) Amazingly , the day after I returned from Europe , CNN called and offered me the position . It took four long months , but the timing was remarkable and I could n't have been happier . But , as I started my new professional life , I was sick . I had the travel bug . Now , this is not to be confused with bed bugs , which , FYI , I painfully fell victim to in Copenhagen at a horrible , bomb-shelter-of-a-hostel they call Sleep in Heaven . Apparently , Heaven smells like mildew and leaves you with a rash . No , this was the travel bug -- the forever-itch that leaves you longing to wake up in a foreign bed in a foreign country , rising to face new ideas and new people beneath an unfamiliar sky . Of course , that 's just my poorly poetic way of saying : The world is huge and amazing . It 's so good ! Once it hits your lips , it 's so good !
Currently Bellini offers the opportunity to decide where he 's going on vacation . They can be either Argentina , Greece , South Africa or Turkey . Bellini will blog on CNN.com and appear on CNN.com Live from the Beach . He says he has the ` ` travel bug '' for international vacations .