Comments on: Putting the wondering back in wandering http://www.vagablogging.net/putting-the-wondering-back-in-wandering.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Erin http://www.vagablogging.net/putting-the-wondering-back-in-wandering.html/comment-page-1#comment-2118 Erin Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:13:24 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/putting-the-wondering-back-in-wandering.html#comment-2118 This post seems to have my heart attached to it right now. It's so true. I've been spending the past two years, almost, moving around a bit - summer in Troy, back to school on the lake, semester in Italy, summer internship in Oregon... It's a wonderful and heartbreaking experience. I leave Oregon in 12 days to go back to school so, naturally, I'm dreaming about moving back, spending my life in the Columbia Gorge. But then I look at an online graduate school program and say to myself: you could do that anywhere or several "anywhere"s. Fall semester in the south of France, spring Ireland... train trips between the two. Both blessing and curse. This post seems to have my heart attached to it right now. It’s so true. I’ve been spending the past two years, almost, moving around a bit – summer in Troy, back to school on the lake, semester in Italy, summer internship in Oregon… It’s a wonderful and heartbreaking experience. I leave Oregon in 12 days to go back to school so, naturally, I’m dreaming about moving back, spending my life in the Columbia Gorge. But then I look at an online graduate school program and say to myself: you could do that anywhere or several “anywhere”s. Fall semester in the south of France, spring Ireland… train trips between the two.
Both blessing and curse.

]]> By: Jonathan B http://www.vagablogging.net/putting-the-wondering-back-in-wandering.html/comment-page-1#comment-2117 Jonathan B Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:06:26 +0000 http://qs1937.pair.com/users/bootlabs/vagablogging.net/_wp/putting-the-wondering-back-in-wandering.html#comment-2117 I think what you've just said is something that pretty much every seasoned traveler has said at some point, because you stand there and you think "you know what, this would be an awesome place to spend some time, and maybe to live..." But then the bus comes along, and you have to move along and then you get there and think "Holy cow, I'd love to live here too!" You know full well if you ever could pony up the willpower and stamina to move there and live there and all that, then six months down the road you'd want to move to the next place, and then the next, and so on. That's why you get on the bus and go to that “next place”; you can't live everywhere, so visit as many as you can. I remember the first time I went to the Lake District, the thought of living in a tiny village with the shop down the road compared to living in London with the stress and everything it brings seemed awesome. But I knew that at some point I'd want to go somewhere else and visit something new as well. It's just the travelers' curse! I think what you’ve just said is something that pretty much every seasoned traveler has said at some point, because you stand there and you think “you know what, this would be an awesome place to spend some time, and maybe to live…”

But then the bus comes along, and you have to move along and then you get there and think “Holy cow, I’d love to live here too!” You know full well if you ever could pony up the willpower and stamina to move there and live there and all that, then six months down the road you’d want to move to the next place, and then the next, and so on.

That’s why you get on the bus and go to that “next place”; you can’t live everywhere, so visit as many as you can.

I remember the first time I went to the Lake District, the thought of living in a tiny village with the shop down the road compared to living in London with the stress and everything it brings seemed awesome. But I knew that at some point I’d want to go somewhere else and visit something new as well.

It’s just the travelers’ curse!

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