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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover." - Mark Twain
Cheers to all my fellow travelers! I am a 22 year old college senior at the University of South Florida majoring in Communication. This blog will be dedicated to the memories, places, and themes of a road trip I took this past summer.
After mentally planning this trip since my junior year of high school, I finally took the step and experienced the freedom of the road three months before my 22nd birthday. My mind had been there since I entered college, at least it felt that way, but somehow I never actually believed I would take it. As I found myself trying to plan the details and secure a proper budget and time-line, the more I felt the need to just pick up and go, to forget about the responsibilities that life in society forces you to comply with and just live. I wanted to experience a life with a feeling of freedom I had never felt before. I wanted to follow my dream of exploration and discovery and realize true adventure. This road trip gave me the experience to realize my world on a personal level... to see and make sense of things that I could have only read about in books before.
This blog is a representation and collection of my travels and reflections. From the day of my last exam of my junior year at USF to the day I was forced to hike 13 hours straight down a mountain after being caught in an unexpected snow storm, this blog contains photographs, personal memories and thoughts all provoked by the few treasured weeks I spent living in the simplest sense of the word that I knew how.