Travel is an interactive experience, the living connection between person and place and person and person. Whether your chosen medium is the pen or the keyboard, there's a tale waiting to be told and yes, an audience awaiting the opportunity to extract the essence of your own experiences.
The travel journal is the traveler's steadfast companion: always on hand and eagerly anticipating the story of the next adventure. Record everything: your thoughts during your journey hold the key to the answers to every question you ever had or ever will ask.
This is the record of my personal journey, beginning with the final week before I left my homeland for my first solo trip. And it still continues through all of the ups and downs of choosing travel as a lifestyle no matter where my experiences have lead me. The journey doesn't end when you reach your intended destination, step foot on that return flight, or change direction. And it never pauses. So, why should the journal?
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
I just transitioned to a new site design and the vast majority of unforgettably fascinating blog entries and awe-inspiring photo galleries collected over the past 5 years haven't moved over yet. They'll arrive soon!
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
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A "snow day"... a veritable dream-come-true for kids all over when the forecast warns of possible snow during the coming day and you rush to catch the news on the television the next morning to watch the list of school closings wishing and hoping for your own to show up in the list. At least, back in the Midwest and south where I grew up. Poor Vegas kids must not know that feeling. Still, I never realized that a "snow day" carries into adulthood... and with every bit as much excitement and fantasy surrounding it! |
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
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A powerful thought for beginning a powerful new year: our behavior influences others up to three degrees away from us. Based on research stemming from the Framingham Heart Study, its been discovered that others are influenced by our own personal behavior, choices, and achievements to an amazing three degrees of separation. That's how far the effects of your life and self extend to the rest of the world around you. |
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
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I woke up this morning with a major desire to tie up all loose ends in my life... I'm declaring it "Tying Up Loose Ends Day!" It makes sense... I'm really looking forward to the new year, starting this one "fresh" with a more dependable income, my own vehicle, a more relaxed schedule, and completely, legally free of partnerships. I've always been seriously focused when it comes to my goals and personal improvement. Interestingly enough, these "loose ends" only exist in the area of relationships. |
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
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I was browsing my copy of the latest issue of Sunset magazine, a recent addition to my reading, when I had "one of those moments." You know the ones I mean: when you're suddenly propelled into the present moment, really feeling it, really feeling your own internal climate, and you realize something very meaningful about yourself. |
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Sunday, 13 December 2009 |
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I now have my own car. Imagine that. It's actually hard for me to, especially when I realize I've been without for about five years. I feel like I'm coming of age, doing adult things, all over again. I'm growing up again. Maybe this is the way to feel perpetually young... just shun all sacraments of adulthood, especially highly expensive material goods, and then obtain them and participate in them all over again. |
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