A Dream of Flying
Man, I really wish I had something interesting to tell you guys about this past year. No, I mean of course this was the year when the levee finally broke wide open in ways I honestly could have never imagined. When I walked into 2019, I had some things I knew I wanted to happen, an impending trip to Europe (which you can read all about in the last blog post) and a burgeoning writing career. But what actually happened was this weird, wild adventure that spanned five continents, eight countries, and fifteen states. This was the year that I got to set foot in the Sahara, walk the Great Wall of China and ruins of Ancient Rome, reconnect with both my paternal and maternal origins, reintegrate music and travel back into my life after such a glaring long time away, and actually become pretty prolific with my writing/translating career; this is the year when that all happened. This is why that matters...and why it can never happen again. Let's get the travel stuff out of the way fir