WANDERLUST

[won-der-luhst]

-noun

a strong, innate desire or impulse to rove, travel, or explore the world.

Ever since I was little I loved to be independent and wander about. Whenever I would accompany my mom to the store, I always took it as an opportunity to play hide and go seek, whether my mother knew we were playing or not. Which would explain why the manager of the store would announce on the intercom for people to look for a small girl with brown, curly hair hiding from her mom. I eventually had to give in and come out of hiding after hours of being crammed behind shelves or in boxes. It never ceased to amaze my mother how much joy I got out of those moments. I loved to explore every inch that I could put my little hands on. 

 There is something about going to a foreign place and immersing oneself with that culture. In order to get the full experience, I believe you have to adapt and become one with wherever you are. You appreciate the people, their ways, their country and you respect them for it all.

                                          

That same passion for exploration has continued on into my young adulthood. There is this desire within me to discover new places, experience beautiful things, and see history. I like to think that I will have time to travel, roam, and backpack to the ongoing list of places that I want to go to. But time is not always on my side. Life sometimes gets in the way. Everyone has perfected the art of making excuses. However, I will not take no for an answer and excuses will not be made. "Captain Skip," my alter ego as a child, is leaving the port and won't be coming back anytime soon, are you in?

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover." 

Mark Twain

"The real voyage of discovery is not in discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." Marcel Proust