I have been a traveler for as long as I can remember. I’ve filled up my fair share of National Parks passports and US Passports alike over my nearly three decades on this planet, but the journeys that have impacted me the most will forever be the ones marked by seasons of transformation.
The first journey that truly left its mark was a spur-of-the-moment backpacking trip across Europe the summer after my freshman year in college. I had been to Europe a few times before and had always enjoyed myself, but for some reason my travels abroad hadn’t yet sparked a desire within me to galavant around the continent aimlessly, backpack in tow. The whole “backpack across Europe” concept was new to me, and though I had friends who had come home from their European adventures with an abundance of pictures and stories, I hadn’t yet found myself longing to walk in their shoes.
That is, until a good friend from high school was at my house one early summer night after our freshman year in college. He was heading off to Europe for the summer on a solitary adventure; I was making plans to return to Nashville to attend summer school so I could minor in interior design.
It’s what I wanted—the path I had always planned to follow. But something from our conversation about his upcoming journey that night lit a fire within me that I have not yet been able to extinguish. It didn’t take long for me to put my pursuit of an interior design minor behind me and beg to join him that summer for the trip of a lifetime. (After all, I’d watched enough HGTV at that point to earn a Master’s degree.)
Surprisingly, my parents said “yes,” and my friend and I headed to Paris with only a vague sense of what was next…
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