Day 3,575

Growth:

17 hours seems like a long day of driving, and it is. No way to sugar coat it. That said, it is 100% doable with the right people along with!

Appreciation:

The adventure begins! An interesting coincidence that I just finished a book about adventurous road trips, started another book about adventurous travel, and am now on the road doing the same. Here’s to breaking out of the mold of everyday life!

To quote Thoreau:

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Presence:

The conversations about life, the exploration of new places, the quiet calm of highway hypnosis. Each moment a gift.

Thanks!!!