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I've been bopping around the east coast of the USA the past two months

Saturday, May 5, 2007
6.28pm
Keuka Lake, Finger Lakes Region, New York State, USA

I've been bopping around the east coast of the USA the past two months

I've been bopping around the east coast of the USA the past two months. I've been to two weddings, seen relatives on both sides of my family, caught up with college and grad school friends.

Places visited on the east coast of the USA during March and April 2007

I landed in New York City, and stayed with friends in Jersey City, New Jersey. I flew to Florida for a Disney World wedding. I flew to Rochester, New York, to stay with family in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. I drove for my niece's first birthday party in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Then I went to visit friends in Washington, DC. After that I went back to Jersey City again for a wedding in Connecticut. And just a week ago I flew back to Florida to visit family in New Smyrna Beach.

The weather is finally turning warm here. I watched the lake go from frozen to melted. Still, though, people talk about how warm it is and it still seems cold to me. It's about 65F or 70F during the day.

The Finger Lakes region is devastatingly beautiful and I keep finding myself looking around all the time. I really don't like to talk about it because we'll get more people coming here than there already are.

I've been bopping around the east coast of the USA the past two months

People ask me, how long are you out for? Meaning how long are you out of the country, I want to know how long you are in? How long are you "In Country" and this is not “up country.”

I am glad to say, I am getting your blog post in my email box, I have yet to receive one from Yahoogroups. However, I have now signed up by using your atom or rss or something with:
http://www.rssfwd.com

Hope you do understand, in country or out country, I still wish to hear and read your views on life, but of course, I think out country is better, but you know me, I have been out for a long time.

Andy of HoboTraveler.com

I would like to know the answer to that question myself!

My mind is turning and calculating: "How can I be the perfect 'citizen of the world' and be every place all at the same time?" or at least: "How can I go any place on a whim?"

I have some ideas, although none of them is perfect. I think you have found your own solution and it is suiting you very well -- for which I have admiration and offer congratulations.

I am considering my time in the U.S. as part of the whole journey. I want to believe that traveling in the world is a state of mind. Friends and family have thought of my journey as having a beginning and an end but I do not think of it that way. I want to believe that borders are also a state of mind and--although they are a bureaucratic, economic, and political reality--for me I would like them to be transparent and inconsequential in my mind.

Mark

This is the challenge, and my succcess, and what I hope to tempt you to do. I can live anywhere on the planet and have the necessary money to be happy.

The USA is great, I love going to the USA, however there is a social trap there, the culture denigrates you if you do not work 9-5.

USA women or the women of the world? Hmm, difficult question.
hehehe

The Prime Directive of Travel is to do what you enjoy, same with life.

I 100 believe with a commitment to work and travel, and not to just travel you can go any place on a whim. Taste the USA, find out the way, then think, will you work while traveling, be a Hobo that searches for Jobs, in exchange for one night in the Philippines?

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