Road trips

“This entire trip, I have felt like a newborn baby…everyday is a first, and every morning bringing me an experience that was so exciting that I burst from within…flying down an open, winding road with nothing in site, music blasting, gripping the edges of the window with both hands, eyes open wide and waiting eagerly for what my world was going to bring me next…begging to learn more, see more, do more, feel more…and never being let down.”

“I’ve traveled a lot and all over the planet in my life (mostly for work) but this was probably the first time that I really felt like I was traveling instead of just trying to get someplace. Most of the best things that I saw on the trip were places that I just stumbled across while driving down some back road, and the whole aspect of not having a timeline or a destination was definitely a huge contributing factor to the effectiveness of this trip in letting me decompress.”

“As an engineer specializing in behind-the-scenes machinery and control systems, I have never been what you’d call ‘outgoing’ or exceptionally adept at social interactions. However, driving around for nine months in the world’s greatest social ice breaker, showing up to sleep in the homes of dozens of perfect strangers, and eating by myself at hundreds of different places and striking up conversations therein most definitely improved my social skills.”