(From Braeden's POV)
Okay, here we go! If you're reading this right now, you're probably aware that Caroline and I will be leaving shortly for an epic adventure in the south pacific! We decided to create this blog in order to express our thoughts and memorialize our travels. It quite honestly doesn't matter if anyone reads this ever, as this is less for you, the Reader, and more for us, the Travelers. It will force us to take time, slow down, and think about the experiences we had on our travels. A year from now, we will return from our travels completely different people. More tanned, yes, but also more aware, more experienced, more "knowledgeable" (whatever that means). The long and short of it is that I expect us to grow over the year, transform into better versions of ourselves. So, without further a due, let me try to explain what I hope to get out of this blog:
Any diet or workout program that you undertake will be unique and different from the others. Some will be super similar, others will be cray out there. But every single one will tell you that in order to complete the program successfully, you have to take pictures of where you are now. Because the change is slow and gradual, and you may not notice the impact the workout/diet has had. But it has had impact, sometimes significant impact, and comparing to previous photos is the only way to know what changes have occurred to your body, and how much better off you are now. Likewise, Caroline and I will be changed when we return from our adventures. And likewise, it will be hard for us to see the changes, despite what our family and friends might say. This blog is a way for us to look at how different we are, and reflect on what we did that changed us so significantly. Hopefully through this blog we will be able to really see how much we have grown.
As well, this is blog will be an opportunity for you, the Reader, to travel with us. We recognize that not everybody is a young, crazy teenager with amble time to live large and go on adventures. Some of you may even have a normal 9-5 office job that offers no independence and insists on boring conformity. This is an opportunity for you to live vicariously through us. To hear our stories, see our pictures, and experience our travel in a unique way that has been offered through the miracles of the 21st century.
Lastly, this blog will hopefully be an inspiration to any travelers-to-be that might stumble upon it. It might inspire them to achieve what we achieved, to be crazy on their own, to see the world and grow for themselves. Or it might be a "what not to do" blog. We really have no clue what we're doing, so who knows how this adventure will turn out!
So, as our first blog post draws to a close, I hope I have eloquently described my dreams and aspirations for this blog. I really am new to this whole thing, we both are, and as such I really haven't the foggiest idea as to how this whole thing will turn out. It's crazy. It's exciting. And successful or not, it will allow myself and Caroline to grow and learn more about ourselves and the world around us. So in that regards, no matter what the outcome of both the blog and this trip, it will be a success because we will be different. Better. So, after a flurry of typing, it's time for me to start this madness.
Okay. Here we go.
B & C
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard