Vagabond

My two new favorite reading materials are blogs and the Travel section of my Sunday Tribune.  Here's the thing... 1. The two blogs that I am always reading belong to two people that I barely know from high school.  Do I feel slightly like a creeper? Yes. But I'm okay with that.  One girl is a very talented writer and the other in in Europe and therefore living a much more fascinating and cultured life than I currently am.  2. As I established in my previous post, I am not sure how I feel about traveling the world, so why I am so obsessed with reading the travel section, I don't know.   

This Sunday the cover photo of the Travel section is a man with his backpack and hammock standing in a lush green jungle-like forest.  The article is titled "The Vagabonds." The subheading says "They leave everything behind for life on the road; what they find is priceless."  The man in the picture is Matthew Karsten.  When he was 29 he sold his car, bought a bicycle, and created an online website business that he could take anywhere. When he had $7,000 in savings, he sold everything that he owned that he couldn't fit in his backpack and flew to Central America with pretty much no plan.  

Am I the only one who is finding some creepy coincidences here?  Not only does Karsten sound almost identical to Kristen, but 29 is my lucky number.  I thought that I had $7,000 in my savings.  I just checked and it's actually $8,000 but still, pretty close.  As most people know, I have an obsession with my bikes (now I have two since I won another one) that I have at school.  

"This lifestyle allows me to live in the moment with a freedom I've never felt before" he said.  I checked out Karsten's adventure travel site, expertvagabond.com, and it's pretty awesome.  Is this some subliminal message telling me to get out of my damn comfort zone?  Although it is unlikely, It is not impossible.