It has been a while since I have written an entry. So long, in fact, that blogspot has actually changed their format! But that will be perfect. A new format to document a new adventure. Before I go into detail about my next big step, I want to share some of my summer highlights. When I arrived home from Thailand at the end of April, I spent the majority of my summer in Grand Junction. I was not looking forward to living with my parents in the small town I grew up in. Furthermore, it was the strangest thing to come home to a town I felt I knew so well and find that in six years, almost everything has change and almost everyone has left. I was determined to not let the unfamiliarity of my hometown get me down. I filled my summer with hikes, road trips, dancing, and yoga. I started my summer with a trip to Salt Lake City to visit some friends. That weekend there was a bachelorette party for a college friend of...
"..that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned.. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”