hear we go hear we go hear we go

May 25, 2007 23:59

this topic can be exhausted for everyone but two young girls, kayla and myself. sure you can have your parent pay professionals to cart you around on a field trip to another country, where you have assigned buddies and the next expensive two weeks of your life is planned out on paper, see this monument, visit this chapel, sleep in this overly priced and awkwardly comfortable hostel, twenty minutes here, forty there, your destinations are rated by stars in the twelve dollar travel guide. we have two 22 hour plane tickets from chicago to rome, we have a website called couch surfing dot com, we have spirit, and we want the citrus fruit taste of adventure on our tongues, yes we are young, yes we are broke, was we conceptually will fail... no we will not visit one fucking museum on our stay in your city, i read an article about a family owned farm in south america, the man who owned this farm had a freeway that ran along the side, in this article it explains how the man decided to dye all of his sheep red to amuse the people stuck in traffic, i read a book where to men had one week to get rid of a whole lot of money, they were in india, they were taping money to donkeys, making treasure maps leading to buried treasure leaving these maps for children to find, they were paying strangers on the street, paying them handsomely for directions to a place they already knew how to get to. inspiration comes from nonsensical stories with whimsical people searching for the soft lightly weighted joy that only comes from seeing a herd of red sheep, or exclaiming that you will paint an entire town of shacks the same bright color of the sky. happiness comes from bold colors and bright places, i will never be the same after this two month trip, i do not know who i will become but i am boiling the water, adding the right ingredients, and checking my watch, waiting for my own explosions. and for all who care, when i return in september i am only staying long enough to check up on my family, pay off some bills, and fill up my gas tank, then it is off visit some friends out west i am never coming home.
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