The Clog

i have been blessed with a double-edged sword. i am pretty good at almost everything i begin to do, whether it be athletic or kinetic, but i get bored easily and move on too quickly to be great at any one thing. but there is one thing i want to do and be great. i want to be a travel writer.

i want to share my adventures with anyone who will read about it. i have done that so far, but i want to reach a wider audience because i believe travel brings people together and transforms the myth that people are different, into an understanding that people all want the same things in life, which is to love and be loved. it opens the halls of the mind, a passage with a vanishing point. just as having children is (i imagine) a committment for which no one can prepare, when we travel, we have a completely personal experience that cannot be expressed in words. so i continue to describe what i see, what i learn, always knocking at the door of that knowledge, knowing you are on the other side. there is no password to get to the other side. but i hope that with humility and an earnest documentation of my own travels, i can encourage you to at least look through the peephole an eventually push the door wide open, as your eyes will be when you see what is on the other side. i can promise that i will not quit before i become great at telling the story. and from now on, i am going to refer to myself as a tourist, because that is what i am everywhere i go. someone wise said "a traveler is just a pretentious tourist" and i totally agree.