Man, it sure is comfortable here at my parents' house. Home-cooked meals, warm bed, hot water. All feels good and relaxing. I've been able to do a lot of re-organizing, condensing, fixing, too. But, it's like mud or quicksand or something - there is always something else to fix, or another day to wait. I feel in danger of losing momentum, I can't shake what I guess would be called anxiety - so I've got to draw the line and call my preparations good enough. I think I'll head out Monday - down to the Osarks, which I hear are quite nice. Maybe I'll spend a couple backcountry nights out there before moving further east.
I think it will take me a while to stop making plans and just truly go with the flow. I've really been conditioned - for a long time, I've always been looking ahead, making plans - being ambitious, basically. I'm finding it quite hard to let it go....
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So are you planning to quit planning? Get to it! Right away!
Hey dude. Enjoying the blog. Get moving though because I wanna read about some more interesting places :)! Hope all is well!
Matt & Sara
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
yeah, after i graduated and started the postdoc job, i started feeling a little lost. i had always been working towards something (degree this, degree that, somehting bigger/better). finally, i didn't have a clear thing i was working towards.
good thing the federal job cleared up all that ambition for me.
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