go on a crazy adventure

So, I just saw something on here, someone’s goal was to backpack through europe.

I think part of the reason I would have trouble accomplishing this is because I would think it would be something I would do with a buddy, but I always feel like I wouldn’t want to ask a buddy to do something like this with me, because it generally means spending somewhat large amounts of money. I think the idea of just going to a foreign country is very appealing, or even just driving through the United States, hitting random interesting areas of the country. These things both do cost kind of large amounts of money and I feel like it would be worth it to me, but I don’t know if anyone else would think the same. But, so, I think I just decided I could possibly do this by myself. If I want to do it enough, I can just say that I’m going to do it and if someone would like to join me they could. But, I think it’s also the kind of thing that the right person would have to join you. Anyway, just thinking…

Having never been away from my family outside of my home town, 1.5 years ago I decided I would leave in a few days, drive 500 miles, and meet someone I knew on the internet. Problems: he didn’t know I was coming, because he hadn’t been online lately, and I only had his LAST address, and then not even the apartment number.

Too many crazy adventures to count, but suffice it to say that my friend and all his buddies turned out to be party animals, while I’m a “straightedge” as he called it; I never did end up drinking or smoking their pot or anything, but it still felt like living dangerously, what with witnessing all their clever tricks, sneaking into arcades and tracking police patrol shifts and such, and after being exposed to that side of human life, even though I was miserable for a time near the end, I think I grew as a person. I wouldn’t even trade the rough times, they were so special to me.

I found a love of the road, the freedom of travel without anyone else around, I saw L.A., beverly hills, oceanside, san diego, I even went to legoland… all on my own. It was an almost-2-weeks I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life; I only hope I get the chance to take another chance like that again.

Deffinately a ‘Big Fish’ adventure, I wanna meet a giant, a witch, a wardrobe, a scarecrow and an alchemist.

Although the very nature of a crazy adventure is not having a say as to what goes on….I have to be spontaneous and see where I end up.

I was looking at winkandsmile820’s goals and on her list there was a goal “do something wild and unexpected.” This goal gave me a feeling. A feeling that I too can do something wild an unexpected. That’s the whole point of it. That it’s unexpected, people don’t think you would do that, something out of character. People have this image of you, and generally, even the people who know you very well don’t know everything about every part of you, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist or that you should hide them, and I think I am just realizing that. It’s what makes me, at least, shy, that people will think I’m not being myself, that I’m trying to be something I’m not if I act significantly different, or they will pay extra close attention because it’s a new part of me they haven’t seen and then judge me more critically. But, I don’t think thats it, I think it’s just that its a new side of me they haven’t seen, not me being something I’m not, they just might not know it all the way. Or maybe I just don’t know it all the way….

Two of my friends just went on a 130 mile bike ride through the mountains. For one of them this was barely a big deal (he has done things like that before). For the other it was a very huge and impactful experience. I spent the last night of their trip with them and it was so amazing to hear about how testing yourself like that affects you. I don’t know. I know I am not even close to being able to do anything like that but, I don’t know.. I want to have an experience like that.