Wanderlust

"I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation - a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here... nearly every American hungers to move."

Ever since I went to Europe I've been restless and impatient for the day that I can get out of here again..... I guess I don't mean "get out of here," I mean it like John Steinbeck says, "away from any here"....

ya know what I mean?

I just want to go. Go to New Zealand, go to Switzerland, go to... I don't really care, I just want to go!

ughhhhhhhh.....

I get jealous when I hear about people who go out and travel the world for years at a time. How do they do it? or a better question would be: How can I do it?!

Let's pretend that I had the time and money to go for a year and get travel out of my system. Would it be irresponsible and selfish? And would it ever really get out of my system, or is this an incurable problem?

questions, questions....

I've tried settling for the past 2 years and it's not workin. It reminds me of another Steinbeck quote from Travels with Charley:

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked."

Dang it.