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hey. i always get anxious right before embarking on some sort of travel and i start picturing worst case scenarios. tomorrow i leave for new orleans, picking up two rideshares and i don't know whether they drive or not, i don't know whether i'll have to do all 20 hours of driving myself. i don't know whether i'll be sleeping in a hostel or a car tomorrow night. if you think of me tomorrow or saturday, please send happy/wakeful/safe thoughts my way. because i have no one seeing me off here and i cannot stop the anxiety.
my mother is so, so graciously letting me take her car, because mine is in the shop indefinitely, and i really really need to get out of here. they kept saying, oh it'll be a few days... a few more days.... and it's been two weeks and the part still isn't due in till next week. there is a fuel leak that could cause a fire hazard if i drive with it a long distance and it gets worse. so i'm taking the new honda, and will return it in may when i come back for mica graduation. (yes i wouldn't miss that... i'll be there with flowers!)
i've officially been accepted to both colleges i applied to, and i've pretty much decided on prescott in arizona... for numerous reasons which i may go into later... but basically: the opportunity for travel and in-depth field work, especially in latin america, small discussion-based classes, their philosophy on education and their environmental activism (all buildings recycled), their student body which seems overall to be mature and enthusiastic about what they're doing, and the amazing location. i've been reading travel guides on arizona. i have to go out west. or else i'll be craving it until i do. my mother and i drove to new york city last weekend, and when we turned east on interstate 80 i started rambling about detouring on 80 west and all the places it goes through, chicago... cheyenne... salt lake city... and ending up in san francisco... yes i've been studying maps for the last year.
ok ok i'm going to pack the car
wish me luck! and i send you all the same!
much love.
my mother is so, so graciously letting me take her car, because mine is in the shop indefinitely, and i really really need to get out of here. they kept saying, oh it'll be a few days... a few more days.... and it's been two weeks and the part still isn't due in till next week. there is a fuel leak that could cause a fire hazard if i drive with it a long distance and it gets worse. so i'm taking the new honda, and will return it in may when i come back for mica graduation. (yes i wouldn't miss that... i'll be there with flowers!)
i've officially been accepted to both colleges i applied to, and i've pretty much decided on prescott in arizona... for numerous reasons which i may go into later... but basically: the opportunity for travel and in-depth field work, especially in latin america, small discussion-based classes, their philosophy on education and their environmental activism (all buildings recycled), their student body which seems overall to be mature and enthusiastic about what they're doing, and the amazing location. i've been reading travel guides on arizona. i have to go out west. or else i'll be craving it until i do. my mother and i drove to new york city last weekend, and when we turned east on interstate 80 i started rambling about detouring on 80 west and all the places it goes through, chicago... cheyenne... salt lake city... and ending up in san francisco... yes i've been studying maps for the last year.
ok ok i'm going to pack the car
wish me luck! and i send you all the same!
much love.