Travel the world: the
idea that in order to
see as much of
life as possible, you must
travel to distant places.
This is the idea that the moment you
realize you are comfortable in a situation, you
are no longer experiencing as many new things as
you can. Yes, you might live so that you learn
something new everyday, but consider this: if
you wanted to purchase a loaf of bread for
dinner tonight, you know how. If you want to
ask someone on the street what time it is, you
know how. There are places in the world, most
places in fact, where you would have no idea how
to do even those simple tasks. Life is
amazingly complex and interesting, and there
are so many different places and people that it is
next to impossible to take it all in.
There is a certain breed of person who just
wishes to see the other side of life, the side
that has been hiding just over the ocean or
across the boarder. This is the type of person
I am, and I desire to live the greatest story
ever told.
This is my
proposal: sometime during the month
of
June in the year
2001, I will set off on a
world adventure. I don't expect to
plan it
much, the
goal is to simply make it from
start
to
finish using only my feet and my
social
engineering skills. The current sort-of plan is
to start in
Lisbon,
Portugal, and then go
around the world until I cross the
border back
into the
US across the
Bering Straight. It is
a trip that will take me though some of the most
hostile territory on the
planet, and quite
possibly get me
killed.
In spite of the danger, I still want to do
it. I'm sure it's been done before, and I'm
also sure that I'm not alone in this desire.
I am looking for someone else to join me on this
trip. Not a "roomie," not someone to spend every
minute with, in fact, it would be just like two
people doing this on their own at the same time.
The only difference would be meetings at some
frequency to make sure the other person is still
alive. I've looked to my friends, I've looked
to my piers, and found no one willing. Now
I'm looking to Everything2.