It starts like any other addiction: a quick voyage into an unknown world. Maybe your friends are all doing it, and they’ve goaded you as well. Maybe you saw it on TV and it looked incredibly cool. I can’t tell you why we start, and I can’t tell you how to stop. My name is…
2006. I’ve been quiet lately- I apologize, but my brain has been a whirlwind. I am alive, well, and working in Lisbon, Portugal. As I have not been tethered to a computer for the last few weeks, I have had time to think, to write, and to pay attention to what I have learned thus…
Though I have been using twitter under the name @donatifamily for over a year, I am new to @livevicuriously and new to the travel community of twitter. Everyone has been so welcoming, helpful, and inspirational. A huge thank you to many twitter friends who have made the planning, preparation, and launching of this trip a true delight!
I will have no car. I will have no job. I will have NO HOME. Homeless. I am aspiring to be homeless- let’s make sure we’re all clear on this point. I will have no safety net.
Travel has made me kinder, more understanding of others, it has taught me there IS a bigger picture, it has taught me that I don’t know as much as I thought I did. It has also shown me things I never wanted to see. Starving, barefoot, dirty children with weapons trying to make a living at 7 or 8 years old.