Full Circle…Almost

September 12th, 2006 | By Joshua | 1 Comment »

As we approach the final leg of our trip—the drive from New York to Colorado—I thought another map was in order. Here’s a breakdown of the whole trip.
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Reverse Culture Shock: A Bucket of Cold Water in the Face

September 10th, 2006 | By Joshua | 4 Comments »

Exciting, uncomfortable, inspiring, and totally discombobulating. Such is the experience of coming home from the World.
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Putting the trip back together again

September 1st, 2006 | By Joshua | 2 Comments »

Gaining some interim understanding of everything we have just seen and experienced is important, especially as pressure mounts to get a job and rejoin the race. But we’re still traveling, right? Still shacked up for weeks at a time, still living out of bags. Until we land in Colorado. Or Kentucky. Or Arizona. Or Belize. There is still an uncertain and empty road ahead of us.
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Gathering of the Vibes: Traveling Back to the Farm

August 23rd, 2006 | By Joshua | 4 Comments »

The Gathering of the Vibes music festival offers the perfect hippie-licious respite from the hubbub of Babylon, and driving out of New York City is a big-sky burst of relief from the heights of the Tapan Zee Bridge; vast Hudson Valley landscapes extend in all directions instead of just buildings and more buildings. We drive north through a green tunnel, moving faster on the ground than we have in a long time, and in the car, we whirl from the speed and the clouds and the endless trail of travel intensity frothing in our wake.
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New York: Crash Landing

August 18th, 2006 | By Joshua | 5 Comments »

“The final destination of any journey is not, after all, the last item on the agenda, but rather some understanding, however simple or provisional, of what one has seen.” —Pico Iyer

But before understanding is splashdown in America, tripped up and stumbling through the boroughs, change of speed, social mayhem — instead of just the two of us in some unknown world, there are ALL of us, parents, cousins, aunts, babies, friends in the familiar/foreign big/small World of New York.
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