US Tour
I'm heading out tomorrow to visit friends and family throughout the US. I am all packed including my "Guide to Short-term Job Opportunities" which may come in handy on the road. It's pretty extensive, anything from working on tour boats/buses to ranch jobs to camps to organic farming. Of course, if I decided to choose something from it the "choice" part is where I would get stuck. Is it me, or is this a recurring theme in my life?
Everyone keeps asking (as I know is natural) what I am going to do after this little expedition. And as I get down to the wire I have started to feel "wrong" about taking this trip. And I think it has to do with the answer to that question... which is "I don't know". I often feel like I want someone to tell me what to do... I even asked my pappy one night "what would you have me do?" knowing full well he is the one person who would TELL ME. Needless to say, I wasn't real satisfied with his answer. So I wonder, am I running off because I don't know? Always searching. There are so many options.
Anyway, the trip. I am going a bit south, then northeast, then real south to Atlanta to visit my Aunt. This is as far as I have planned. I do hope to be able and have the energy to continue on from there and visit the west. I love the west but it seems most of the people I know are in the east. I think that if I do choose to stop someplace for "short-term job opportunity" it will be in the west. Not a very thorough plan, is it? I love it and hate it :) I am going to attempt to keep a journal here of my travels. I hope it's interesting :) For me that is, well, for you too. I leave tomorrow and will be spending my first evening with a friend in Chicago, so I am not going far. I have never spent any time in Chicago although that was always the city I was running away to when I was child. Obviously I never made it far. So I am looking forward to it. Stay tuned to see if it lives up to my childhood dreams...
posted by Melissa @ 3:58 AM
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