Awakening

Ernest Hemingway was one of America's great adventurers.  It's fitting that I am reading one of his greatest works on this, my greatest adventure.  There is a line in For Whom the Bell Tolls that really struck a chord for me.

"I am an old man who will live until I die."

I'm a fair ways away from being an old man, but three days into this trip and I've determined to live every day of my life until I die.  America is a beautiful, marvelous place, but this summer is a stepping stone paving the way to even greater adventure.  Today America, tomorrow the world.


On to more important things.  My odometer before the trip:

Let's see if I can up that number by about 10,000 or so before rolling back into Maryland.