Guest Post: Future Travel Plans (and other sorts of escapes!) by Scott

Greetings, you may recall seeing some of my past posts here, but if not let me introduce myself.
I’m Scott the fiancé to this blog’s own fabulous writer and like to help out where I can. I write, I code, I dream, I work, I dance but a single style (bad), and I intend to know three languages… maybe four.

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Winnebago by RobertRatPrints

I dream.  We all do.  My dreams are often a tad frightening, involving being chased by murderers or possessed computers(?!); however, my waking dreams are far more pleasant if seemingly more unobtainable sometimes.  There’s so much to do and see, but life can get stuck and stagnant when you aren’t looking.  Responsibilities leap from shadowy alleys and debts stalk you like very wealthy ninjas.  Change can come easy or hard, sadly the hard comes easy and the easy comes well, not at all if you don’t really work and struggle for it; unless yer one of them born-rich-types.  I hate them on principle.  But you keep going because you dream.  Those desires and wants over power all the rough times and get you through those dark nights when the Serbian Plains take on a new more appealing sheen.

Dreams give us hope, give us reason.  My own dreams got me through school and working several quite awful jobs.  What could drive me to handle all the stress in life?  What else, escape.  Just as summer is the escape from winter (and vice-versa if you think hard enough) so too is escape my escape from previous escape.  Confused?  Well good, more fun that way.

Someday I want nothing so much as to own only the bare minimum in accoutrements (this includes understandably all my video game systems and the collection of 64 games I intend to start as well as my books, movies, cds, pets, clothes, furniture, binders, paper, board games, full scale models of several of the world’s modern and ancient wonders.) pack it all up in some fancy RV and just hit the road.  After I personally convert it into a hybrid – because some day I will do everything myself.  We will drive across the US, Canada, Mexico and further south, stopping no where longer than a week or two; then, hop a ferry to Europe and drive from there to Japan taking an extended detour through Africa and the rest of Asia.  By then the Antarctica will have melted from the endless summer called “Global Warming” and we will be the first family to drive through all seven continents coast to coast.  Too bad everyone else will be a zombie.

To see the world has perhaps been my dearest wish second only to family and followed by becoming King of Games or a Pokémon Master.  Family I have found in my beloved, and will grow from there, I’ve found I’m not competitive enough for the rest, but travel I can still dream about.  And so I do, constantly.  My life has been an extended Winter so far, with struggles and failures, but with the help of those around me, the snow is melting flowers are blooming, and Spring has begun to arrive.  Hardships cannot last forever, and Summer will come, but you have to be careful not to get burned while the sun has you blind.

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A note from Kendra:
Scott, I can’t wait for us to begin our world adventures together. I hope the rest of you dream big and far.

♥