By the time our grand 6-month adventure ended in January 2013, I had fallen in love with writing.
I used to love writing as a little girl, spending long afternoons penning sappy poems about magical ponies. As I grew older my attention shifted away from poetry and towards fairytales. Then, as a teenager, my family moved across country to San Diego. Somehow, in a new world of hot concrete and palm trees, all the words slipped out and disappeared. I began taking pictures instead.
My last year in college I began my Senior Art Thesis in photography, and quickly found that I had been lying to myself. I didn't love photography the way that my peers did. I never "just had to photograph something". For me, photography only served a purpose as an effective way to tell a story - but if that same story could be better told in words, or theater, or sculpture, then that was just as good.
Why am I tell you all of this? Well, I want to set the stage for something new.
This blog was started with the goal sharing our travels and stories, but it morphed into a much larger endeavor. It awoke my passion for writing once more. Jacob and I may be stateside for the time being, but I want to continue telling those stories. I want to be a author. A travel and memoir writer, to be specific.
There. I said it.
I've written a book. (Which apparently you have LOVED! How incredible is that?? I've been bowled over the reviews I've received. It is truly humbling.) My first (of many, I hope) articles has been published in Converge Magazine.
I wanted to tell you, in no uncertain terms, that this blog will continue. That is my vow to you, and I hope you join me on this adventure!
