A New Journey on the Horizon
Travel Blog: January to August, 2018
My undergraduate career is over. On Saturday, December 16th, I
graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in Mechanical
Engineering. While many of my peers will
go on to working careers immediately, I have a fortunate luxury. I will be starting graduate school at
Vanderbilt University at the end of August 2018, which means I have a solid
eight months between educational careers.
Those who know me well know what this means…
“The world is a book,
and those who do not travel only read one page.”
–Augustine of Hippo
I am going to travel the world. I want to be amazed by the places I see, the
people I meet, and the experiences I have.
I want to enjoy life. I want to
learn how people around the world live their lives. I want to stand in front of breathtaking
panoramas that make me realize how finite and fleeting life is. I want to be humbled. I want to learn as much as I can from as many
unlikely sources as I can find before I dedicate the rest of my life to
researching and building bionic prostheses.
Needless to say, I am going to make the most out of my eight months of
freedom.
My first stop is Peru.
I will leave on December 29th, and I will be in South America
until February 22nd. From
there, I have a ticket to Spain, and I will spend three months in Europe and
Africa. Then, at the beginning of the
summer (right after the worst part of tornado season in Texas), I am returning
to the United States and spending the whole summer riding my motorcycle the long
way around to Nashville, where I will ultimately end up and settle.
This blog is my trumpet to the world I am leaving
behind. It is for my friends at TCU, my
family in California, my Texas Family in Texas, and all my friends I have met
in previous careers, previous travels, and previous lives. It is to keep you informed of where I am, to
reassure you that I am alive and well, and to inspire you to break out of your
own comfort zone and pursue your dreams to travel the world as well. Finally, it is for me. I want to leave myself a reminder of the
memories I created while traveling the world.
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