Focus on Travel
Again, I'm using Stephen Fry as my virtual mentor and like my previous blog, his "six-month holiday at the BBC's expense" in America still excites me.
His 50 state adventure is now in book form, wonderful! I see brilliant potential for post-university drifters like me. Effectively, Mr. Fry has allowed us to carry on exploring the globe, like we have been doing for most of our educational career.
Sadly, I never joined the 'Gap-Year' crew. Getting lost in deserts and finding yourself in a rain forest does appeal, yet I've not had the real time, gumption, or copious amount of money to fuel a trip...yet!
Excuses
I did, take a three month instructing summer-job in Maryland, which was obviously fun and 'rad', and all that but it doesn't beat a good 12 months as a farm-hand, herding sheep in New Zealand does it?
Recently, it's felt a little too late (now that I'm a graduate and going for a Masters) to wander around a remote Asian island....alas, I feel my passion for new places has been revived by my favorite, satirical genius!
American Idiot?
Having travelled a tiny bit of America after my summer-job, mainly via Greyhound buses, I saw the East Coast. It was, quote "awesome" and although I was one of a thousand-or-so Brits, sent by Camp America to represent the UK, I honestly found it a great time of year to get away and experience work and travel in a completely new continent. There were places that could have been mistaken for suburban Manchester, complete with far too many houses, smatterings of thug-like youths and not enough grass.
I actually strive to add photos of outlandish activities, like the above, to my scrapbook.
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