WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD NOT FAIL?

I was not a miserable girl. I was merely misplaced.

Somewhere within me was the quest, a foolish thought that my gut pushed up like the right answer just a second before the buzzer signals that time is up: travel. See the world. Become a citizen of every other place but this one.

No one believed me, but they thought it was cute. I tried to explain. And then I dared them to doubt me.

On my 30th birthday I hiked a glacier, in white capri pants and a turquoise sweater, making my own way and going as far as I wanted.

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Indiana, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, California, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa; Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio,  Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alaska.

Now what?

Fri Jul 20 2007 14:08:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)