Five Years

Damn. I am finishing up Cheryl Strayed's book, The Wild, and of course I cannot help but to think of the UW Bonderman Trip. Five years ago this month marks the anniversary of when I departed on a 10-month solo backpacking trip around the world starting with a one-way flight to Tokyo from LAX. Hobbling my way through LAX with an incredibly heavy-ass pack on my back, I couldn't have imagined just how transformative and influential that experience would be on my life at that moment. In many ways, I continue to land from this journey with an attempt to understand this world and my place in it...and here I am again, five years later, about to jump off onto yet another journey - el doctorado. Tomorrow is my first day of class as a PhD student in the School of Education at Claremont Graduate University. The commencement of this new journey and my reflective state motivated me to start up this part of the blog again to publicly document some parts of this process as a graduate student. I anticipate this blog evolving in topics so, I'm not making any more promises on this description beyond this for now. And here we go...