Yearning for adventure
don't know what it is lately, the fall weather - colder. Feeling of something missing - I don't know.
I do know though that I am yearning for adventure. I want to see new lands, places that I've never been.
This coming weekend Matt and I were to have gone to Tennessee to go camping in the Cherokee National Forest - along the Smoky Mountains. I planned on us going white water rafting on the Hiawassee River and to the Tennessee Aquarium (the world's largest fresh water aquarium) where they have a very large exhibit of gentoo and macaroni penguins. I'm disappointed for sure that I'm not going there (although now looking at the weather I'm thinking white water rafting may be a little cold) and I certainly enjoy hanging out with Matt and when we've went places such as camping amongst other places it's always a good time. But more so because there is something burning inside of me, yearning for adventure.
I feel this want, this need to go someplace(s) I've never been. The caveat this time versus other adventures I've had is that I don't want to go alone and I simply can't think of any place to go or with whom that I've never been. Well at least not having to pay for the other person to go with me. My friends that I could go see or go visit - Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Mount Pleasant, Seattle, Portland, Tucson - I've been to those places before. As I quoted recently, “there is nothing new under the sun.”
So I sit here and think where can I go, what can I do. What will wow me. And maybe even more importantly, who can I team up with. Who has the same type of interests and sensibilities that I have. Who would be an asset and not a liability on an adventure. I just don't have those answers.
I do know though that I am yearning for adventure. I want to see new lands, places that I've never been.
This coming weekend Matt and I were to have gone to Tennessee to go camping in the Cherokee National Forest - along the Smoky Mountains. I planned on us going white water rafting on the Hiawassee River and to the Tennessee Aquarium (the world's largest fresh water aquarium) where they have a very large exhibit of gentoo and macaroni penguins. I'm disappointed for sure that I'm not going there (although now looking at the weather I'm thinking white water rafting may be a little cold) and I certainly enjoy hanging out with Matt and when we've went places such as camping amongst other places it's always a good time. But more so because there is something burning inside of me, yearning for adventure.
I feel this want, this need to go someplace(s) I've never been. The caveat this time versus other adventures I've had is that I don't want to go alone and I simply can't think of any place to go or with whom that I've never been. Well at least not having to pay for the other person to go with me. My friends that I could go see or go visit - Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Mount Pleasant, Seattle, Portland, Tucson - I've been to those places before. As I quoted recently, “there is nothing new under the sun.”
So I sit here and think where can I go, what can I do. What will wow me. And maybe even more importantly, who can I team up with. Who has the same type of interests and sensibilities that I have. Who would be an asset and not a liability on an adventure. I just don't have those answers.