Moving Forward...

This is the beginning of the end of the "college" chapter of my life. In a couple of weeks I will be leaving Austin for the foreseeable future. I might comeback on vacation, but I don't see myself living here, or anywhere else in Texas, ever again. Don't get me wrong I love Austin, but I need a change of scenery. I've lived in Texas my whole life: seventeen years in Ft. Worth and four in Austin. I want to spend the next twenty or so in other places.

I've already started boxing up my books and other non-essentials. Some of it will come with me to California, but most of it will be left with my parents. As a result of all the growing i've done these last four years, some of the things I used to think were important don't really matter anymore. One example being my drawing books. In high school and my first year of college I used to draw quite a bit, but now I do more writing than anything. I write on this blog for fun, but I also have a novel I want to get published.

Speaking of California, XIII and I have been tossing around the idea of a road trip from Austin to San Diego. I planned on going to San Diego at least once before I moved out there so I figured I'd make an adventure of it. Besides, the eighteen hour drive will be less painful if it's split up. So far, the plan is to hit El Paso, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Las Vegas, NV, Los Angeles, CA; and finally San Diego, CA. El Paso is mainly just a stop to take a break. Most of the focus will be on Las Vegas and LA since both cities have plenty to do. If we do go through with the idea, expect a log of our adventures.

Since one of the things I plan to do while in San Diego is travel to the apartments I've been looking at on the internet, expect a small update on that as well. This will happen whether I go on the road trip or not because if I'm not taking a car, I'm taking a plane.

There are a lot of things coming together right now so expect quite a few updates within the next month.