Attitude With A Side Of Grr

Attitude With A Side Of Grr

Last January, I posted a picture of myself sitting on the floor. It represented down-time, the un-glamorous side of travel.

I thought the point was well made but am presenting another important yet fairly opposite one now.

While looking back at my 20+ months of vagabonding, there are some pretty neat things I saw and places I went. I’ve met a few people along the way and still talk to a few of them. (Read that as ‘I’ve made a couple of friends when that number could be much higher’.)

I would like to highlight some good stuff while ignoring the "other" side. Though it might be more interesting, I'd rather not describe all the times I felt unproductive or just plain uncomfortable. And there were a lot of them.

Instead, a list of positive experiences...
*taking my visited national parks total to 22
*touring 20 state capitol buildings, which has led to a goal of going to all 50
*getting two tattoos
*my two WWOOFing experiences (Worldwide Work On Organic Farms)
*the Idaho Potato Drop
*Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in North Carolina
*going to my favorite beer bar twice (Kickbacks in Jacksonville, Florida)
*70,000 Tons Of Metal
*several comedy and music shows
*volunteering at farms, an animal shelter, a library, a food bank, litter clean-ups, MusikFest
*finally getting LASIK
*figuring out how to see familiar faces
*my Easter video
*an online argument with comedian Hari Kondabalu
*a not-very-successful stand-up comedy set at an open mic
*driving across the country twice

There were, of course, other things as well. But much more has to happen in the next year and beyond. Too much time was spent feeling awful and that’s not acceptable.

My future is uncertain, which is both exciting and terrifying.

Like I’ve said many times before, we’ll see what happens!