Travel On My Mind

There was a time when I only thought about travel during the week days. After a long day sitting in my cubicle making phone calls and doing the monotonous and seemingly endless task of trying to find cars and the people we loaned them out to.

Those days are over.

After reading Rolf Pott's "Vagabonding" and finding http://www.bootsnall.com, there is no turning back. I am GOING to see the world and I am going to do it NOW and not later. One of my favorite excerpts from the book is after an explaination of a specific group of Christian monks and how they always wanted to travel but because of their vows to stay where they were they always put it off.

(Most of us, of course, have never taken such vows-- but we choose to live like monks anyway, rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (As Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it." We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling domestic certainties that we forgot why we desired them in the first place.)

Travel has engulfed my entire being and has sent my mind on a whirlwind of thoughts. One minute i'm ready to quit school and work fulltime again so I can raise money for an around the world trip. The next minute i'm ready to just give everything up and pack a bag and start walking.