In the Airport. What?

So about six months ago, I decided that I would plan an amazing adventure for myself. Why not, right? It’s not that I don’t love New York. Hell, I invented that t-shirt, but I just didn’t feel ready to settle down with her. I considered many options from the death-defying to the simply idiotic.

My good/bad ideas:
Tending to horses in Argentina
Tutoring/living with a family in Spain
Volunteering at a zoo in Australia
Singing lame standards on a cruise ship
Getting some degree. Somewhere.
Volunteering on the US/Mexico border
Tribal drumming- But for peace..?
Slinging cards in Vegas
Becoming a traveling spray tanner all of over the US
Fire eating on the streets of Europe...

While all of these are perfectly viable ideas (to me), I simply couldn’t choose which adventure to take. Fuck- I even thought about space camp!

Remarkably, one day it just came to me.

There were to be only 2 conditions:
Run away without a plan.
Do it on my own dime.

To make it happen, I started working like CRAZY. I’m talking 70-hour weeks, bitch! Honestly though, it was easy- I just stopped sleeping and eating and showering. As if that wasn’t enough, I also gave up my sublet to save money on rent.

That’s right, I chose to be homeless. Not in the classic sense of the word, though. A sort of fab/bohemian homelessness. You follow? For example, I would work a double, meet a friend out, crash at their place, and be out and on my way back to work before they woke up. To shower, I got a trial membership at New York Sports Club. It was TOO funny. I would go to the front desk and sign into the club, look at some machines, “stretch,” and then hit the showers. The worst bit was that the over-attentive staff TOTALLY noticed that I never worked out...

To say the least, the last 4 weeks of my time in New York were stressful and ridiculous and amazing and tiring and beautiful. And now here I am on a plane, leaving.

As I mentioned, I really don’t have a plan. I decided to start the whole adventure in Munich for Oktoberfest; I’ve always wanted to go. After that we’ll see. I’ll let you know. :)

-H*