I've wanted to get out of Houston for a very long time.
I don't know where the desire came from, but I do know when I made it a life goal. One year ago this month.
A year ago I set a deadline of five years and started saving. The goal was six months salary, enough scratch to get me by for half a year while I wandered the country to try and meet a new city to call home. If I didn't have enough saved by that point, I would go anyway.
Plans like this rarely survive contact with reality, and 10 months after I started saving my mother passed away. She was the most adventurous person I've ever met, and I know that if she were still around, she'd be rooting for me as I finished scraping together everything I needed to get underway under my own power. But she thought ahead, so the person that I inherited my wanderlust from is also enabling me to get a four year head start.
For my family and friends in Houston, I'd like to take this time to make public my intent. By Summer, I want to visit all of you as prepare for the road. I'll be lightening my load of material things and packing my life down into the trunk of my car. I don't know how long it will take to get everything in order, so I'll be starting today. You can keep up with me here as I prepare and make my journey, as I plan on updating this travel-blog.
For family, old friends, and the new ones I'll meet outside Houston, I'll be visiting you too! Let me know if you have a couch for me to surf on and if there's something cool in your town that I should see or do before moving on, I want to hear about it.
For anyone else that may stumble across my wanderings, stay tuned. This travelog will be your guide through one persons' discovery of the world.
