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lethalinjustice
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a silly dream
For a long time I've been trying to figure out what I want to do when I go home.
The only thing I have figured out for sure, is I must do a road trip across the US. The idea started a long time ago, when I read American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I thought it would be such a great idea! To travel across the US, going to all the weird and unknown places mentioned in the book.
The longer I am here, the more there is I want to see, more places I want to visit at home. I want to visit my sister in New York, I want to visit Jess wherever she maybe at that time, I want to finally see Washington D.C., I want to go back to Colorado and see my old house and my old neighborhood, I want to drive across the desert and visit a tourist trip that's way out in the middle of nowhere. I want to spend some time in major cities and see great things in each one.
My goal is to save up enough money to go on a very long road trip, at least one month long in the summer that I come home. I feel like the time between going home from Japan, and finding a home and a place to work is the best time to wander around. I have no obligations, no permanence.
When I go home from Japan, I will get all my stuff together. At that point I will really know the things I need and don't need in life. Get rid of all the stuff that I was attached to before leaving, and only keep what I can fit inside of a car. I will then hopefully buy a car (or if need be rent one for this trip) and I am thinking an iPhone (or what ever equlivliant will be around at that time that has navigation as well). Afterward, I will pack up my whole life, everything I own, everything I am, and set off on an adventure across the country.
In the end, I want to be in California. I plan for California to be my last stop on my road trip. There I can see my friends living there and also see the state myself. It seems like a good ending point, a place where I hope I can find a career and create a new place of permanence.
This is just a silly idea, but it's something I would love to do more than anything when I get back home.
I don't know why while I am living in Japan I am craving to drive across the US. Maybe it will just be the ultimate cure for homesickness. Maybe, I want to see the US from an outsider's perspective.
There are also parts of me that don't want to go back home just yet, that wants to see different parts of the world, and live in other places as well. But maybe... maybe that can be left for the future as well.
Just ideas.
Current Mood:  contemplative
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