The Road Not Taken

The choices we make often determine the course of our lives. I regularly find myself at a crossroads and having to make these choices, some easy, some difficult, but forced to make a decision none the less.

As a result, when I look back, it seems that generally I have chosen the “road less traveled” and continue to choose the unknown as opposed to the well trodden path.

Before choosing a name for this travel blog I decided I wanted something that was a reflection on my own life journey, something profound perhaps and original. I settled on a title stolen from a poem of the same name by Robert Frost. I include the poem below in its entirety as I feel it should be read in its complete form as opposed to its oft quoted few lines.

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Therefore, I am once again venturing out beyond my comfort zone by heading off to Australia and New Zealand. I hope to share the journey with those that stop by this blog and perhaps somewhere along the road we will meet.

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