Intentions

Hello There Fellow Travelers!

So, here I am, starting what is perhaps one of the most cliched things on the face of the planet: a travel blog. Originally, I had no intention of ever doing this, but the more I thought about it the more I realized how much traveling I actually do, and the perhaps the importance of documenting my travels.

Regardless of the excuse, I am about to embark on the longest journey I have ever undertaken. On June 12th, my 21st birthday, I will travel to New York City, followed by Philadelphia, Washington D.C, and then spend a few weeks in Boston. While this isn't what I'd call "authentic" travel, it is travel nevertheless. Upon my return to Colorado, I will have about a day and a half to prepare to travel to the Marshall Islands to teach for a year. I am quite apprehensive of this trip. Until a few days ago I only knew that I was going to the Marshalls sometime mid-July, to some island in the south Pacific.

I still have no idea which island I will spend a year of my life one. I also am unsure about my funding. While I have enough money to pay my bills, I cannot get a definite answer on loan deferment, something that could, foreseeably, through a wrench in my plan. Everything happens for a reason.

My journey starts in a mere 23 days.

I am not sure if I will have internet access in the Marshalls, running water, or electricity. For this reason this blog could epically fail, but I suppose that's a chance I'm willing to take. Perhaps I can entice someone to co-author this blog and post written messages from me on here.

With graduation behind me, and my sentimental nature, I'll leave you with a quote I've been thinking about:

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  ~Mark Twain