I have always been a writer but I daylighted as a Social Worker. \u00a0I am passionate about travel and I love new adventures from cities to food to people. \u00a0I also love cooking, gardening, my rescue cats and my nieces and nephews. I am a modern day flaneur. I love the anonymity of a crowd and feel most comfortable alone in a sea of strangers. Throw in a dash of mystery and I am purring in overdrive. \u00a0I am crazy for sushi and sunsets, sunflowers and island cats.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Travel keeps my synapses crackling, it is accelerated living. Change strikes away comfort zones. It strips away the arrogance of comfortable routines and brings humility.\u00a0\u00a0Remember when you were a kid and your favorite thing was to go “exploring”?\u00a0 For me it was the woods and railroad tracks near my house.\u00a0 Every day we were going to go a little bit further and surely see a hobo or discover a famous fossil or maybe even see an Indian teepee!\u00a0\u00a0 This excitement of adventure, insatiable curiosity and discovery has always been my inspiration for travel.\u00a0 Travelling anywhere breaks you out of your routine and refreshes you but travelling off the beaten path and immersing yourself in a different culture forces you to put aside your assumptions about other people thereby allowing you to know the person you are destined to live with forever–yourself!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.\u00a0 Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.\u00a0\u00a0 And the point is, to live everything.\u00a0 Live the questions now.\u00a0 Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day\u00a0 into\u00a0 the\u00a0 answer.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always been a writer but I daylighted as a Social Worker. \u00a0I am passionate about travel and I love new adventures from cities to food to people. \u00a0I also love cooking, gardening, my rescue cats and my nieces and nephews. I am a modern day flaneur. I love the anonymity of a crowd … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.globalgrl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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