It gets unbearable sometimes. The wanderlust. The need to get out of wherever I am. Sometimes wandering down to Keeper of the Plains is enough, others I have this insatiable desire to just get in my car and start driving. It's too damn expensive. Traveling. I have some friends in Denver who have offered their couch more than once. I've thought about. Just packing up and going. But I can't afford the gas to get there. I can't afford to take the time off of work or school. And that's what stops me from leaving. Somedays it seems worth it, other days I can't justify it. When it gets so bad I can't ignore it, I go visit my parents. The three-hour road trip from Wichita to Lenexa tides me over. But again, i can't take the time off work to go and I need to graduate sooner rather than later so I have to go to school. I don't know what to do during these times. I'm overdue for a road trip. I need to go to California and bury my toes in the sand. I need to stand on a balcony in Vegas and stare at the lights of the Strip. I need to go to Colorado and stand on a mountain. I need to go to Florida and go to Disney and Universal Studios. I need to go to New York and see a million Broadway shows. I want to go to London and ride the trains around the English countryside. I want to go to Italy and eat food that's wayy too good and gain 15 pounds! There's so much more of the world I've never been to. And I need to see it. I need my passport filled with stamps from all over the world.
I would love to sit my ass on a beach in Mexico with a drink in my hand. Or climb a freaking mountain in the Andes. I would love to curl up in some Swiss Ski lodge with some expensive hot chocolate in front of a fire. How can people be so content to stay where they are? There are people who have never left a 50 mile radius from Wichita! How can you sit in Wichita of all places and be perfectly content? I'll never understand it. I need to go somewhere. And it needs to be soon. Otherwise, I just might go stir-crazy from all the monotony. I was made to move. But I'm not in a position to move. Where am I supposed to go from here? How do I decide where to go next?
