on the road-

i woke up this morning and bought a one-way flight to seattle. no, i'm not moving there. but i am driving from the tip of the west coast, back to north carolina, with my kindred and our friend, sharon. i have to see the whole of my country before i leave it for an indefinite amount of time come this september, right? yea. i think so too. so i'm going to. life is far too short not to make a dream your reality...here's to being a doer, rather than merely a dreamer! 

stay tuned for part two of my european adventure with kelsey; only this time, we travel the states. i keep thinking about all of the places we'll see, and the people we'll meet. i keep thinking about it and i want to burst because my life is full of so many secret colors. so much magic...

“At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.” 

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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