About This Travelogue
I find that most of my time on the internet is used to find information, not inspiration or emotion. I go for relaxation, distraction, but mental stimulation, the kind I experience with a good book, is a rarity on the web. I think this is why my time on the internet feels misspent, like it sucks more from my life than it gives. It is a good place for cheap answers to cheap questions and I’m grateful for it (how else would I know how to make a vegan lasagna, why the Mongol empire failed, oy why tinfoil is different colors on the sides), but when I do stumble on something that feels wholesome, which is to say, has life unto itself, I’m deeply delighted. I’d like to make this corner of the internet one of those places.
This isn’t philanthropic by any means, this feels like a good place to refine my writing. It’s hard to imagine Steinbeck curled over a computer swearing at WordPress like me but I think this is the way one goes about it nowadays. If you’d like to support the journey, read and comment. If you ever read something truly worth your time, that made you smile or think, try sending a dollar (I’ll link my Venmo on the contact page), and if you feel something was a waste of your time, try requesting a dollar (I’ll decline it with a smile). This blog costs about $100 a year to keep up, my goal is to make it self-sustaining.
This was intended to be a travelogue, and I suppose it still is, my life is just starting and there are places yet to go–on my wall there’s a scratch-off world map with an itch still relatively unscratched, despite my best efforts–but my intention has changed. Travel will continue to be a part of my life but I want to center this blog on the question at the core of my life’s experience: what is it to live a good life?
I think every twenty-something is a philosopher at heart, trying to live out the answers to life’s most piercing questions; what does true love look like, does it exist; what does it mean to be successful; am I culpable for society’s faults; how can I be happy. Some approach these questions so passively that the words never even enter their mind but it’s these questions, or real-life derivatives of them, that fill most daydreams I think. Mine, however, is an active pursuit of these questions, they haunt me even in the cheese aisle.
Most of this blog is dedicated then to travels, the places and people that make my life exciting. Whatever is left over are the wanderings of my mind as I seek out meaning in my day-to-day. And please, feedback is not only welcome but sought after.
