Have a listen to Sarah Hepola's interview with CBC on traveling alone.
With too many waxing on about how travel has reordered lives and given them new found direction, travel has, in too many ways, unshaped me.
I was willingly and quickly pulled out of the "go to university, spend money you don't have studying something vague very few give a rat's arse about, meet a partner, get married, spend way too much money again, buy a house, make lots of body wrecking babies that will drain your time, income and energy for the next 18 years while eking out a career from an expensive liberal arts university that no one's heard of and you're still paying for."
Blah. Twenty-seven, debt free and recently re-unemployed, I couldn't be more pleased. A mild uncertainty accompanies me like a case of lice as I pour over provincial and world maps while anxiously glancing at my bank account.
While I don't have sponsors like similarly named Sherri I take great pleasure that we're doing it simply because we can.
Where ever we can. Tonight I'm leaving for a 10-ish day tour with the fella westward along Highway 16. Fishing, hiking, hanging out, grizz bear spotting and cheap American beer await!
Hepola's full essay here.
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