It's Done!

Well, I have been working on my Rick Steves website for over 6 months and it is finally done.  I love working on projects, but once they are done I feel a little empty.  Now I just have to figure out what the next venture is.  I hope you enjoy my site!

http://www.experiencingthebestofeurope.com/

Dreamy Thoughts

Some days I wish I could leave my job for a year and go wherever I wanted.  I feel alone when I think about my one true passion.  Of course people love travel, but I don't know if I have any close friends or family that experience the wanderlust that I do.  So many of my best moments in life have happened on other lands.  I suppose I wish that these moments were more frequent.  I truly hope that I can achieve what I think I may be capable of doing.

I wonder if anyone else feels that there is something greater for them.  I want to find immortality by leaving behind a legacy.  Perhaps it is my naivety, but no one ever reached greatness without dreaming larger than life.  I can't help but feel that something is missing.  I hope to find it.

Withdrawals

It has been five days since my last blog post and I miss it already.  So, here is my new blog.  It does feel a little odd and unfamiliar to start a new blog after spending 365 days with my last one, but I'm sure it will feel like home soon.  On here you can track my progress to becoming an author.  Here we go...

I've been doing a lot of thinking today about my book I want to write.  I'm still struggling to focus on exactly which topic I want to write about.  I came up with a new idea today.  I was thinking that I could write a book about independent travel.  It would be a how-to mixed with personal stories.  Then again, it has been done before.

My other thoughts include a piece about Parisians through the people.  I would have conversations with and interview different Parisians and bring their stories together to create a book.

The final idea is my Neighborhood Mosaic.  Basically it looks at Paris through the character of its neighborhoods.  I am struggling right now to continue with this idea because I'm not sure how I want to write it.  I've started writing it as anecdotes, but I think I need to take myself out of the book.   It makes me nervous to be uncertain so early in this process, but I suppose the only thing that makes a difference between a writer and a dreamer is the writer pushes through.

I also wonder if my travels abroad will bring some inspiration that I cannot see yet.  My high school humanities teacher said that inspiration is crap.  He mostly meant that having an inspired idea and everything working out perfectly is crap.  It doesn't mean that to everyone, but now when I say the word, that is what comes to mind.  For now, I will worry about improving my writing and learning more about the whole process. 

I have been loading some of my travel videos to youtube if you are interested in checking them out.  They are not polished or of any kind of quality, but they are there for now.  Here is the link.