Getting Ready

Trip Start Jun 25, 2008
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Trip End Dec 17, 2008


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Where I stayed
Parent's house
(Phoenix hotels)

Flag of United States  , Arizona,
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I spent the day mostly getting ready for my trip. Packing and repacking, trying to make things fit better and wondering how I will be perceived, as I look at the clothes I have packed and trying to remember why I signed up for this adventure so readily without really thinking it through. In the same moment, I am so glad that I took that insane step to make choices that will surely change my life and worldview. I have traveled quite a bit for a person my age, but for all my travels I have always had someone with me, helping me figure out how things work in a different place. This time I will have to be more independant, more resourceful, although I am going to a place which is much more community oriented than we are. So perhaps I have it backwards and really I will learn how to depend on others like never before. All I know is I dont want to be the tourist this time. I want to learn how to do life according to a different set of rules. And maybe it will be pure struggle, but I doubt it.  All this towards a goal of becoming a person that can go anywhere, be doing anything and be happy.  And at the risk of being called an anarchist, I have always had an easier time being critical of this country than being grateful for it. And maybe what I find there will reinforce this way of thinking, and I will never want to come back. OR maybe I will realize what I have had the whole time and cant wait to come home. (This decision is also dependant on Obama winning the election, but I will save the political commentary for later). Thanks for being with me.  
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