KGBlog

i've been out of college for a year and yet i still for some reason have a summer. therefore i, along with james norris, am embarking on an adventure. most of you reading this are aware of our planned cross country journey. for all who are interested in following our trip i will be posting as much as our meandering path allows me access to the internet. we are headed west for over a month to see the highlights and such. grand canyon, friends in la, and only a couple of other definite stops. that leaves a lot of room for who knows what. which is what we want. in the words of donald miller (he wrote blue like jazz, read it if you havent) who also took a similar trip, "we are shaped by our experiences. our perception of joy, fear, pain, and beauty are sharpened or dulled by the way we rub against time. my senses have become dull and this trip is an effort to sharpen them." james and i have had a couple of overarching themes over the past year of our friendship. at the end of last year we were inspired by an old song, Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen, performed by Baz Luhrmann using the words of Mary Schmich. a line in it recommends that we do something each day that frightens us. we also took a trip to athens ga earlier this year as a sort of preview to long car rides. 4 hours down, 2 hours there for a friends birthday party, 4 hours back. it was amazing. over half way there we looked at one another and summed up, "this was a stupid decision, but clearly the right one." so we leave in a week and a half to sharpen our senses, aiming to conquer fears and make the right dumb choices (in the safest and best sense possible). i'm sure that this will provide for some interesting blogging if nothing else but i'm willing to wager it will be a summer not soon forgotten. (and we have both elizabethtown soundtracks so we're set for road trip music to fit any mood)

Posted in: on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at at 12:01 AM