AH! It's happening oh so fast! I'm not sure if I'm ready for this. I leave this Saturday at 5:45 from Atlanta and fly to LA from there its a 15 hour flight to Sydney then a 3 hour flight to Brisbane where I will finally be able to stand. I have no idea how I am going to entertain myself for that long but hopefully it won't be to terrible. So that's the update on Australia plans... but I want to tell you about my recent trip.
I went on an adventure with my best friend Amy Milam and we went to DC for 2 days then to NYC for 2 days then back to DC for what was supposed to be 1 day but turned into 2. We rode a Megabus to and from our destinations... all of you out there that thought it may be kinda sketch... totally fine, no one was weird, just like riding on a plane only gravity has a hold on you. We took an overnight bus which was horrible because you were sitting the whole time and trying to sleep sitting up is not fun at all. But we got there and walked about a mile with all of our stuff on our backs through the city to our friends house and stayed on their couch for 2 nights. we did a lot of touring and eating. good times for sure. then we headed up to NYC. when we were riding in our taxi to our hostel on 103rd street in manhatten upper east side.... WAY upper east side... our driver told us to be very careful it was a bad part of town.... OH GREAT! haha... so, still pretty confident in our judgement of things we are let out right where we were supposed to be and got our keys from a very nice lady and she showed us to our room. we had a key to the outer door and to our room both doors locked behind us... we probably would have found somewhere else to stay if this had not been the case. we both all day that day only had 2 granola bars and it was 9:00pm so we were starving. walked across the street to a pizza place and got a massive new york pizza slice. so good! the next day we got up early and walked all over probably about a total of 6 miles that day... haha! we saw times square, Rockefeller center, central park, went shopping, and to top it of went to the mary poppins broadway! AMAZING!!! anyways... so we drove back to DC the next day and went to sleep when we got back and toured all the last day that night we were supposed to get on a bus at 11:00 for another overnight ride. well we get to the parking lot at 11:02 and the bus had already left!!! these buses the whole time we were riding them didn't leave until at least 15 minutes later so we thought we had some wiggle room. Nope! so we walked back to the house with all our crap and didn't get back home until 12:30 and we booked another ticket for 10:45 the next morning and drove home.
Wow, was that a whirl wind trip or what!? Great experience, but i would never live in a city like those. I felt confined, I missed the trees and birds terribly! but it was a great experience and I learned that I have had this expectation that when I travel it's going to satisfy me in some way. Like as if it would hold meaning on my life. It doesn't... Life happens with people and with pouring into those around you, not by traveling around the world. I am so happy to have really grasped this before I left for a country I had only dreamed of going to but now I realize its just another place... The reason I am meant to be there is still uncertain, but I'm pretty sure its not because I need to fill a traveling void in my soul. I pray God uses me in ways I've never experienced while I'm over there. traveling is so much fun and its a fun yet expensive hobby, but there is more planned for me than going around the world to see everything.
Thanks for putting up with my writing the way I speak, it's hard not to, you would think college taught me a thing or two :) please continue to pray for safe and smooth travels as I head out on my way. I know I don't write very often but I will try to keep up better while I'm in Australia.
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