A Meta-Vacation along the Black Sea
I originally intended to come to Turkey at the beginning of September. I thought that I would take a train over on the first, and spend ten lazy days doing nothing until I had to…
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Nis, Serbia
I was right, thinking that I was not yet able to just let go of whatever fear I am harboring and travel freely. I am definitely still one of those captured, safe souls. I wonder…
Traveling with the Internets
Last week I was reading the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and it awakened in me a healthy wanderlust. That may sound strange because I haven’t been home ever in my life and so…
Slow like honey
People say that love is slow. It takes time to build trust and respect between two people. When I was young I believed them. I consented that my full, pulsing heart was nothing more than…
Leaving, kinda
I am jealous of the volunteers that suffered a finality, the ones that actually ended their peace corps service, their time in eastern europe, and their vagabond lives. They cleaned their houses, got on a…
Scouts that don't sing…
I won’t say that I know a lot about scouting. I can’t even say that I have much experience. Although the camp I worked at was a scout camp, at least two-thirds of the staff…
Labels that I am Not.
Packing has given me time to reasses my projected being. Usually I have a tendancy to look ahead and to try to create the person that I want to be. However, as the boxes become…
Waiting On Trains
I slept through the 8.30 train. I was awake but the bed felt too good to leave and I didn’t see much of a point. To me the 10.45 is just as useful today. Of…
Packing
Packing is a process. It is the first process of a transition of the mobile variety. Well, unless you count school applications and visa processess. Sometimes they come first. But packing is the first process…
Things that come easy
When I was young I didn’t appreciate things that were easy. I was not such a rebellious youth that I hated things that were easy. In fact, I barely noticed them. They floated by me…