My Heart is on The Map
It’s hard to be in the moment when all I crave is the butterflies you get when you step off a plane and your feet touch the soil of a foreign place, and that overwhelming feeling of excitement and terror coincide. It’s like this indescribable travel high, when you get a taste of it, your left wanting more….I want more!
For years I’ve waited for the entertainment industry to give me the opportunity to travel, and though it gave me few, they were like teasers. I was always working and wasn’t able to just immerse myself in wherever I was and really experience another culture. This year I want to make traveling a reality. I want to travel just for the travel. I don’t want any specific goal or destination in mind, I just want to go and do whatever feels right at the time.
Many times I thought something was wrong with me because I never wanted to stay in one place, but I just feel like why should I? There is so much to see in this world and I want to experience as much of it as I can. I tried continually to get rid of this longing but it just grew stronger. I’ve been lucky to meet people more recently in my life who are on the same page as me. And that is enough to continue to pursue this dream.
I found this amazing book by Rolf Potts called ‘Vagabonding.’ It couldn’t have fell into my lap at a better time. It gives advice on how to live your life traveling, not taking vacations, but how to live as a traveler. This lifestyle is definitely not for everyone. Some people need their 9-5 jobs, a home base and a routine. But for me, I want nothing else but to live with the necessities and be self-sufficient and mobile. I want to be able to put everything I own in a backpack. (And well my guitar which obviously won’t fit, ha.) Who knows, maybe along the way I will decide that this way of living is not for me but I won’t know until I try. I don’t want to wait any longer to travel. I finally feel ready.
I don’t expect it to all be glamorous, I know there will be plenty of ups and just as many or more downs. Life doesn’t stop because you physically go somewhere else. This blog is about opening a new chapter in my life, building up from ground zero. Sometimes getting things down on paper help to make them become a reality. We all pave our own way and once we realize this, anything is possible.
