“Not all those who wander are lost.”

January 5, 2017 begins my latest journey.  A 5 month odyssey to SE Asia, Australia and Japan. Some parts will be explored with friends I’ve met on other travels, and in other places I will be alone, challenging myself to new adventures. I am off to explore and to experience and to see the world from a different perspective. A new approach for me, with limited luggage and stops in foreign lands where the language can’t be learned in a few lessons on Rosetta Stone. (I’m not sure if I’m more nervous about the limited wardrobe options or the inability to speak Vietnamese!)

From James Kavanaugh I have embraced this message:

“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know – unless it be to share our laughter.

“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

“For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.”

I will be posting here as much as the internet permits, so bookmark the page and come along  as I listen to the wind and hum “Pair of boots and a sack of clothes, free and easy down the road I go…”