tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35686424226036395292024-03-12T23:40:10.996-07:00Needless Scribbles of A Traveling 20-somethingJacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215850187782109036noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568642422603639529.post-41579890994364173192012-09-18T04:20:00.002-07:002012-09-18T04:38:35.664-07:00Moments with Momentous Monuments<div style="text-align: center;">
Alliterations. Clever, no?</div>
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Some more Parisian adventures. </div>
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It looks like we're going to be here until October 3rd, plenty of more time to capture virtually every facet of my abroad life. It's longer than I'd like to stay in Paris, like I've said I'm more country-minded, it's expensive here, and I don't like to stay in one place for too long, but we wait here until we can purchase a cheap ticket out, and fly to Pisa, Italy. For the mere price of 16 euros (thank you Ryanair!) Derek and I will fly to Pisa on the 3rd, then make our way by train to the town of Grosseto, where, if our workaway host pulls through, we'll be working on a small farm in this Northern Italian countryside. </div>
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I absolutely adore being on farms, the profile that we found them through has several pictures with squat little burros, countless chickens, ponies, dogs, a variety of barnyard animals. I am interested to meet our hosts. We haven't had a lot of communication with them, and at this point in time our stay hasn't had the final stamp of approval, but we've made contact after a few weeks without, so I'm sure all will be well.<br />
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Now, Paris. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arc de Triomphe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reminds me of... "Why do you think I have an office?"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Place de la Concorde. Largest square in Paris. Marie Antoinette was guillotined here!</td></tr>
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"Couchsurfing can be really rough sometimes."<br />
Why did I bring all this camping gear?</td></tr>
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Out of humble expectations for the day, we were suggested to go check out the "techno parade" happening near Place d'Italie... we casually make our way to the festivities, don't really see anything going on, though there was a small queue of people gathering along the street...eventually this gem of a human being began holding his own one-man parade. Future husband material. There was something about his jeans ripped open entirely from back, down through crotch, to front, that was really just so right for the event we were about to experience. There were high kicks, crotch grabs, some sensuous writhing on the cement...all before any musical accompaniment had kicked in.<br />
Most impressive.</div>
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Derek: Do you think he's gay?</div>
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Me: I don't know, we're in France, at a techno parade. It's anyone's guess.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One woman parade. Sometimes that's all you need. Gettin it gurl.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well look at you, painting shirtless on your house boat with your adorable dog. How French.</td></tr>
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Contradictory to my expectations, you can enter any and all churches in Paris free of charge, which is right in my budget. Derek and I were thrilled to get to go into Notre Dame and it did not disappoint. The construction is really, really spectacular, so gothic and so impressive. Admittedly, I couldn't help but imagining the gargoyles springing to life and imitating their Disney counterparts. The gardens surrounding the church are beautiful, the church is beautiful, the stained glass: incredible. They were holding a service when we went in, and we got to hear some really nice operatic hymns. Getting to experience anything on the spiritual side of life is always a welcome, slowed down change of pace in our travels.<br />
You know, spiritual and calm with a hundred other touristas flashing cameras around you.<br />
THE SIGN SAID NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY, jerk.<br />
But it was gorgeous. Absolutely loved it. Tried to purvey some of its magic from the interior as best I could photographically...</div>
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All that wishy-washy, "Oh yeeeah, maybe I'll go do this, and that, orrrrr blah blah" is slowly leaving my vocabulary. I find myself using blunt, direct sentence structure, that may not exactly be proper grammar, but I like it. It gets the point across and saves you some raised eyebrows and questioning looks from any foreign tongues you may be trying to converse with. Derek, myself, and Julio too admitted we've all begun speaking this way over the course of our travels.</div>
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I need to also get used to the bissou greeting, the kiss kiss on each cheek. I believe I whacked Marie fairly hard with my cheekbone in our greeting last night. She said nothing, which was nice, but I knew my foreignness was showing. There are so many fun customs to learn, and so much laughter and amusement when discussing the possibility of taking these new customs back home to the States. </div>
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Hanging out with a bunch of French, or with any foreign nationals, you're guaranteed to spend some time gazing off into space, thinking of what you'll say, or they will say next to bridge the language gap. Our hosts on this night were very considerate and made gracious, and frequent stops to translate. I find it thrilling and charming, and I like to pretend--whether or not it may be true is for each individual to decide--that I am exotic and interesting in my Americanhood. I can discuss politics, our abysmal food corporations, and how great we are by sheer size. Fascinating.</div>
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Something I thought amusing last night, when Stefan declared to me that he thought France could learn a lot from the U.S. (Me: "Nobody ever says that!") in the way we tax the citizens of our nation. He said the taxes in France are extremely high, a person can be making one million a fiscal year and be taxed to the sum of around $75,000 at the end of it. There was little motivation to work hard and earn a high wage because at the end you lose such a high percentage of it. He thought that in America, the way the rich are rewarded for their money earning, with their actual money, was the correct way to provide incentive and healthy for the individual earner.</div>
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I go enjoy Paris now, no? Oui.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I sit here now, in my queen size bed in Paris, reflecting on the last leg of our journey, what, you may ask, is running through my head? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My computer broke down in Malta, just after uploading nearly all of the pictures we'd taken on the island and deleting them from my memory card. I became hysterical and slightly manic depressive for a brief moment there. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why? I know the things I did and saw there. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh hello, good morning, waking up to this for 3 days.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oli, the German. This is for his unplugged album cover.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this picture because Derek is crazy and Anna agrees, Rooftop at hostel on Malta.</td></tr>
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More to come.Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215850187782109036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568642422603639529.post-17259403093876895852012-08-28T16:19:00.002-07:002012-08-28T16:19:31.735-07:00Ode to Wassenaar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I know, I know, it's way too soon for another post. But today was pretty scenic, and I figured the end of our stay in Wassenaar was worthy of its own little entry. </div>
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So here it is. Our biking tour of the town of Wassenaar, Holland.</div>
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Yes, a windmill. Because we're in Holland. Long overdue for a picture, no?</div>
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Also, I think he's managing to bite his nails even while biking.</div>
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View of Den Haag.</div>
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Just a lil eye candy.</div>
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Our favorite horse, Bjorn. And Derek's final ride.</div>
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And look at my big man, doing all kinds of manly horse things! Pulling on reins and whatnot.</div>
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Today was the perfect way to end our stay here. Have I said that already? Because I didn't mean it until now. </div>
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So, I am in shambles. To illustrate this point aptly, I will begin with this picture. </div>
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I look: tired. </div>
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To further prove this statement, as well as show the little brain capacity I am being allowed right now: I cannot recall what train this is, or where I am going on it. Victoria Station? England? Yes. Going to Chiswick? England. A train. In England. And I am tired. Look at my backpack. That's not even a backpack, it's a monster. </div>
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I've also just returned from a 14 mile bike ride--just so you know, not like I'm bragging--with little food beforehand and I'm feeling a little woozy writing this. Alas, I have been working on catching the bloggy up for a couple days now, and I feel like I'm my most 'real' after working myself up physically to that point where I start talking really loudly in between slipping into dazed, blank, lapses of silences. </div>
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Upon rereading that paragraph, I fear this entry may be very poorly written. Ugh sigh.</div>
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Anywho, this is an Oyster card. You use it for travel. In London. England, you ask? Yes.</div>
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This is Piccadilly Circus. There are no elephants.</div>
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This is me. I am standing in front of a monument. A monument erected for those who have died. For what particular 'those' I cannot recall. But enscribed, you can read, "The Glorious Dead." And that is something that I like.</div>
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Who knows what this giant contraption is...</div>
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London Eye. Double decker bus. I never got to ride on the double deck, because my monstrosity of a backpack caused me to be such an awkward, lumbering mass that it's a wonder I could fit through the door. Sometimes I didn't so easily. But it's a nice picture, no? Symbolic of the fast pace of the wild, big city. Illuminating.</div>
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Also, it smells like urine in those booths. In every, single booth. All of them.</div>
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I will do all sorts of things if I think that a nice looking picture will come out of it. All. Sorts.</div>
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This is Buckingham Palace. We didn't exactly mean to show up in the dead of night, and we did mean to come back in the daytime in an attempt to harass some royal guardsmen. We never harassed those guards, we never returned. But look at me on their fountain!</div>
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This was one particularly beautiful morning, waking up in our first couchsurfing residence. It was a very expensive looking apartment. Two bedrooms. So we got our own comfortable bed, balcony, key access to come and go as pleased, TV, wifi, etc. </div>
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Luxurious. Chiswick Town.</div>
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So another morning, we decide, why don't we go take a peak at yonder Tower of London. Only to find, lo and behold, that we had stepped out directly onto the route of the Men's Olympic Marathon route and that the runners should be by in just about fifteen minutes. UM WHAT. We had certainly not expected to be seeing any Olympic events while in London, I, who modestly like to consider myself a "runner," have always been especially "inspired" by the marathoners, and this, the highlight of our London days, miraculously just floated into my lap like as if by some sort of magic Olympian fairy dust.</div>
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The gentlemen in green underneath the showers had the unfortunate experience of running into (almost literally) a rather enthusiastic spectator, who was too busy with his camera to realize he was leaning directly into the poor man's path. Oh wait, that was me? Yes. I was inches away from the man's face.</div>
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So that was incredible. We stopped in at a pub around the corner after the action was over, just to turn over to watching the televised version and buy some overpriced beer. Sort of a surreal moment was watching the race on the TV and coming to the conclusion, "Oh wait, they're looping back around," walking back out of the pub, and seeing the runners again. So strange. I am in history. I am on televised history. From television to real life in my eyeballs. It is happening around me. Just great.</div>
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Eventually we made it to the Tower of London.</div>
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Anne Boleyn, and a bunch of other people, were murdered here.</div>
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History!</div>
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How bout my shirt? Oh wait, it's actually melty hot in London.</div>
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Another highlight of London, the house of Amy Winehouse. There were of course memorials outside, Derek and I each wrote a little note to her ghosty, and walked back through Camden. </div>
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On the London Bridge. We actually just got into some sort of disagreement before this picture was taken. Not willing to fake it for the nice Mexican man taking the picture for us. The Thames is really beautiful. Check out the rings way in the back there. La la la.</div>
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TATE MODERN. SO good. Simple Associations by Tino Sehgal.</div>
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Ferry to Holland. Bye bye UK! Thanks for trying to destroy my WWII knife on exiting your country.</div>
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We arrive at Amsterdam Centraal Station.</div>
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Coffee shop daze. </div>
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If you can see that I appear to be very unhappy in the middle frame, it would be because captured here is the moment after I came to fully understand the unpleasant effects of the Dutch Fire Needle. </div>
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Queen's Palace. Dam Square.</div>
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After leaving Amsterdam, we showed up in the town of Wassenaar for our first work exchange we'd arranged. Our host, graciously invited us to some sweet, small town music show for a local festival they had going on. She happened to know one of the guys in the band--old flame--who performed some Rolling Stones and Journey covers, ya know, classic Dutch pieces.</div>
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Here I am with another workawayer at our farm, Angelique. She's a crazy Dutch with a tattered past. </div>
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Rena. She's 28 in horse years. Equivalent to about 80. She creaks when she walks.</div>
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As it turns out, this may be the love of my life. This is Koba.</div>
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This is BB. She is about 12 years old and has lost all of her teeth except two gremlin looking fangs. We too, are in love.</div>
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Amsterdam was nice. But I find that I'd really rather not spend my time in cities. The architecture and people-watching are probably my favorite things about being there, but other than that I find I'd just rather surround myself with wilderness and animals. Which has worked very well being in Wassenaar on the farm. Once Derek and I reached Den Haag yesterday on our bike ride, I just didn't have any patience for it. I wouldn't classify myself as the most competent of bike riders, and the combination of trying to bicycle in such a hectic city, with so many other bikers, along with lack of food, sleep, and a busy work schedule...I just wanted to leave very soon after entering the city. </div>
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As I think my pictures show, the best friends I've made thus far are all animals. So what.</div>
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Today is our last full day on the farm. Wednesday we return to Amsterdam to spend a couple more days...I don't know...smoking weed. On Saturday, we will catch a flight to Malta. Which was also a little unexpected, we were just looking for cheap flights out of here. The next fixed point on our itinerary is Paris for Derek's birthday, which we should be arriving in around the 13th of September. Both of us, I believe, are ready to move onto the next location. The farm has been good to us, but the work is beginning to grow tedious, I'm getting bored, Derek's getting irritated, we go on now. So to fill the time in between now and Paris, we will go to Malta. I need sun and beaches. </div>
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To start off with.. I could not resist capturing just a moment or two of the hilarious hours long performance a la Derek Sr, who was introduced to the joys of the almighty iPod, on an afternoon involving some heavy medicating. Priceless. I thought it was pretty cute too that my Derek chimed in from the shower about halfway through. Little father and son sing-a-long time.</div>
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And to end, I swear this is the very first video I have ever posted on any social media outlet of myself singing. SORRY BOUT IT. It's what I do. Fairly long, fairly boring, but I wanted to snag a little "18 minutes or so in the life of..." me, Haight Street, San Francisco, doing what I love with some of the people that I love. Some fun little things happen throughout. Also, there's a bit of illuminating dialogue between Derek and I that can sort of attest to how our relationship rolls. Ha.<br />
As I type this, Derek and I are sitting in SFO, about half an hour from boarding our flight to Vancouver.<br />
The whole time we were in San Francisco nothing really felt real. Everything felt familiar, but far away, reality just hadn't sunk in yet. On the last night we spent there, I wanted to roam the city and sleep outside and have my "organic" sort of goodbye experience with the city. It wasn't until then that everything sort of hit home and I really felt that this was, in fact, a dream. I am, in fact, living it. True words. And now, sitting here waiting to board, I am pretty calm. We will get on the plane, we will land, in two more days we will do it again. Ah crazy madness!Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215850187782109036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568642422603639529.post-69773453240133410922012-07-18T19:25:00.001-07:002012-07-19T12:05:19.430-07:00Appreciation<br />
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A few pictures from Hyatt Lake, OR and Hiouchi, CA. </div>
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Still in Oregon, cancelled flight to Hawaii in favor of staying with Derek's ailing father, decided to scrap Derek's Starbucks career for the time being, and head to Europe instead for an extended backpacking excursion. By utilizing Couchsurfing, Workaway.info, family and friends, hostels, etc I think we might just make it over there without starving or having to be deported back home. It may still be pretty tight though. Pennies will be pinched. Bars will be skipped. And museums will have to be rationed. </div>
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The itinerary looks roughly like this:</div>
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Aug 7th - Fly to Vancouver, Canada out of San Francisco</div>
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Aug 9th - Vancouver to London</div>
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Aug 13th - Take ferry from London to Amsterdam</div>
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Aug 24th - Train from Amsterdam to Berlin</div>
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Sept 17th - Derek's 23rd birthday in Paris!</div>
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Spend end of September in South of France, living/working with an English couple</div>
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October - Working on small farm in Northern Italy for 1-2 weeks</div>
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Leave EU by Nov 7th for Turkey where we will either stay <a href="http://theshambala.com/en" target="_blank">here</a> or at a small horse ranch in the same town. </div>
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Visiting Morocco is also high on my priority list... The length of our stay in Turkey is unknown, but I imagine Morocco will be the next stop. Right now it's finding a balance out of things the things we'd like to do, how much we can just wing while we're over there, and which routes are more cost-effective to book ahead of time. </div>
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As far as our quick stint back in San Francisco is concerned, being called back only hours from boarding our flight to Hawaii--and choosing to return to Medford, Oregon to watch a man die, certainly wasn't one of my favorite calls to make. </div>
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Doubt. Resentment. Guilt. Fear. Despair. Anger. Loss of control. Obligation. Love. </div>
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Being here in this house, going through the toils of terminal caregiving, being faced with each ugly fact of our collective imminent mortality; it was all necessary. I was in no way prepared for the situation that I was stepping into, but as my truly short stay here comes to a close, it's easier to look at the beneficial lessons that it's taught me. </div>
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I felt like my time in Hawaii helped me reach this state of being like I'd never known before. That I was now, in fact, "Happy". That I knew how to harness the Power of Now in a way that others didn't, and I could teach them, that I now knew some secret to truly controlling my own happiness and encouraging the happiness of anyone that I met. If I hadn't ran off to Hawaii and felt the changes that whatever all that happened over there took on me, how would I have handled being faced with this decision? </div>
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Something that's been one of my downfalls on numerous occasions in past... </div>
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After the first few days of my Nursing 101 crash course edition lessons, I was not feeling quite so optimistic as far as my assumptions on how far the Power of Positivity theory would get me through this. I mean, my "Happy Hawaii" phase was such a minor blip of time in the big scheme of things. </div>
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Courage is strength in the face of adversity, not acknowledging the fact that things are good at a certain moment in time.</div>
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I wanted to let Derek leave when he told me what was happening. I did not want to go to Medford. I did not want to see his father die. That wasn't happy stuff. So if it wasn't positive and great, I shouldn't have to have it in my life, right? </div>
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That's the problem with loving people. Their problems become your problems. I couldn't in good conscience let him take care of everything that would be required of him back at home, alone. Where does the conscience come from? Learned cultural behavioral standard, upheld by general public.</div>
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Were my motives in agreeing to come out of genuine love and concern, or because of the remorse I'd be made to feel by the collective "conscience" of acquaintances?</div>
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And that's where I stop. Both. One or the other? Everything. All of it. Just because. You have to.</div>
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If this was going to be hard for me, imagine how it is for Derek. For his family at home, dealing with his father's disease every single day. This is not easy and I marvel at Derek Jr and Robin every single day with the way they care for that man. Derek and I may have our differences, but if anything, I know that I need to cut the boy some slack because he has been absolutely incredible throughout this process. I can now look at my time here as a privilege and blessing, something that provided me with a real test of my own humanity. This was a once in a lifetime experience, one that my own words will never properly reconvey. </div>
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It is so hard. It is so incredibly hard to be faced with a true blue example of what is to come. Death effects every single person it touches differently, so we have to try and not judge each other too harshly, because there is no real right or wrong way to handle it. It just is. And it is hard.</div>
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Being here has bonded me fiercely to Derek's family, his father, his stepmother. I feel as if I can walk away from this with a Clean Conscience, knowing that I really did do the best that I could, that I made the right decision, and that I helped even just the tiniest bit to carry the burden that a dying family member brings. Derek Sr. continues to be his own force of nature, someone who is loved by so many, and who has taught me so much about humility, perseverance, strength, and acceptance. He is a miracle. I know it will be hard to leave him, that there will be feelings of guilt and wrong-doing... </div>
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop is a waking horror unto its own. </div>
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We must progress. We must move forward. And we must not be judged cruelly for feeling the need to do so. </div>
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Lots of love, and respect, and appreciation, and gratitude. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">So I've found myself, once again, sitting at my mom's kitchen counter, drowning boredom in a bucket of sour cream. Don't be discouraged followers! This rambling stone is still on the roll; let me catch you up. After coming to my own </span><i style="text-align: center;">Into the Wild</i><span style="text-align: center;"> conclusion, that in fact "happiness IS only real when shared", I left Oahu for San Francisco to reunite with a certain love of mine. That would've been March 2nd, I believe, and I'd already arranged my return-return trip, this time accompanied by my significant other, Derek. Our flight is May 29th, so the countdown continues. 10 more days! Watching him try and make the transition to backpack living is a little entertaining, the poor boy is just the ultimate in fashionista and hygiene standards, but I have faith in him--something not all of our friends and family have so easily shared...Alas, only time will tell!</span><br />
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Being back in the City that time around, I really got an entirely different experience--separate from any other I'd had while living there. To start off, I had no permanent residence. Ever so often I'd be struck with a strange case of claustrophobia that prevented me from being able to sleep indoors at the homes of my friends. I had grown accustomed to singing everywhere I went; to pass the time, feel good and happy, etc--and I often felt that I would rather be wandering, working on my repertoire, alone, than making conversation with people. So a lot of the time I chose to sleep outside rather than crash at someone's house. In that sense, I really just preferred to be on my own terms. I began utilizing a program to benefit homeless youths--Larkin Street Youth Services--which I have huge admiration and respect for the coordinators of. And I know that a big issue on my mind was the level of my "authenticity", so to speak. The people that I met going to the drop-in center, were people that for whatever reason had found themselves in a similar life position as myself, so why did I feel like I had something to prove? Was it because I had friends I could have stayed with? Yet I chose, however, to spend my time alone, walking the streets, encountering strangers, singing on corners, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. It felt a bit like having a foot in two worlds. In the world of jobs and schools and places to be, I would find myself in scenarios sometimes where I'd feel a little tired...tired of feeling like I had something to explain...why was I doing any of the things I was doing? What am I contributing to the world? What is my plan? Yes, but what am I going to <b><u>DO</u></b>? People like to ask that one a lot. Sometimes I'd be made to feel heroic, in a sense, for pursuing some sort of dream. Then I, being the over-analyzer that I am, naturally am forced to contrast that positive feedback, by scrutinizing my deeper, more personal motives for this change in lifestyle I'd made. Yada, yada, yada...<br />
Derek says I sound like I'm complaining which I disagree with.<br />
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Besides, the big difference was how much more real I felt, how much more I could feel and experience the City. In short, I felt that living outside, singing, breaking down the barriers I'd had with fear and people, I had opened myself up enough to be happy, to engage, to hold conversations and be interested in what people would have to say. To not judge anyone. To be grateful. Just sitting on my corner, leaning on the Bank of America at Castro and 18th, I encountered people who up until about six months ago I never would have spoken to. And hiding out in your house until the very latest minute before you have to jump on Muni, stare at the wall so as to avoid making eye contact, work all day in a job you find mind-numbing, go home and do it all over again the next day..I just don't feel that you have the same kind of special, magical encounters..<br />
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A woman came and sat with me one night I was singing, she worked for a church branch that had started a Midnight Ministries program. I want to say her name was Valerie. Valerie walked around with her little minister collar and a bible, just talking to those who wanted to talk. I asked her if she had any specific experience that was memorable or special to her...She told me she spent hours with a suicidal schizophrenic man, trying to talk him down, give him some sort of reason to live, she wasn't getting anywhere. It's about 4 am, raining, she's been talking for hours, the man's not listening and just talking them both in circles, another man joins them and says a few sentences to the man. That was it. He calmed down and she parted ways with them, confident no harm would come to him that night. People come into your life for a reason.<br />
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One night, I began talking to a homeless war veteran who had just come to San Francisco from the East Coast. He asked me where I slept and I told him I usually just went up the hill to the residences of Castro Street and found a nice doorway. He was in a wheelchair and didn't want to sleep outside so he had me go across the street to a payphone and call 911 for him. I told the operator that there was a man in a wheelchair having chest pains. After the ambulance arrived, I flagged them down, hovering near the stretcher, explaining I was the caller and what I knew. Meanwhile, my new friend was slowly writhing in his wheelchair, belligerently tossing his head around and mumbling to the medic. Up until they arrived we'd been having a perfectly nice conversation. He did get a warm place to sleep that night. <br />
There was Kevin, who I'd run into while I was singing. He would always have mini Reese's, stolen from the Walgreens across the street, and he would come over and share with me.<br />
The Wizard of Oz barcrawl girls who I sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with.<br />
Sharing Britney Spears impressions with the most adorable little Gaysian boy. He had the best one I'd ever heard.<br />
The hustler who offered to smoke some DMT with me.<br />
The couple from Bayview who first told me to put my hat down so people could actually pay me.<br />
One night that it got just a little too cold, a stranger invited me into his home so that I would be warm that night. He was a perfect gentlemen, I made a bed on the couch and left in the morning. That's not something I'd normally do, but I talked with him and felt out the situation. We took a cab to his house and I coincidentally found some pepper spray on the floor of the vehicle, showing him and making a joke out of the possible kidnapping/homicide situation that I very well could have been in. I'm a big believer in signs now, but luckily that was just a fun find. We laughed.<br />
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Putting myself out there in such a way, singing publically that is, seemed to make people feel as if I was approachable. I loved meeting new people, seeing how they reacted to me, what they'd have to say on my life, the stories they'd tell me about their own. Singing too, attracted other musically-inclined individuals which presented some interesting opportunities to me. One man gave me his card, said he had a band on hand that he could put together, and if I ever wanted to record anything he had a studio. Another told me about his sister, the recording artist, who was always on the lookout for good backup. One woman told me I needed to go audition for the X-Factor, that I would make it, and that doing so would change my life. While performing City High's "What Would You Do" this guy started beat-boxing some accompaniment for me, we had just the craziest moment, vibing like that, in the end we both thanked one another for just doing what we do. One man, one incredibly generous man, gave me $60 through the course of one evening. I think that really speaks more to his kindness than my own talent, but it's all these stories that I accumulated that gave me more purpose and reason for living in one month than I'd felt for most of my life. <br />
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Derek also says that this entry is cheesy. I, like lots of other people, find motivational speakers, self-help media, people that rub their success or happiness in my face, annoying. I don't want to be annoying. By sharing these little anecdotes, the humble, (and for the most part) boring, details of my life I want to inspire. (And also get a book deal, but you know...) To those individuals who believed in me, told me I'm so lucky, that I'm following my dream, and they wish they could too: You can. It was very easy. Don't be afraid to be happy.<br />
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I left San Francisco in late April. I returned home to Northern California to say goodbye to my grandmother who had been in a poor state of health for some time now. She passed away on April 24th. I didn't get to see her one last time. I spent some time at home, we held the funeral in Portland, I then went to Medford to be with Derek and his family. Death happens, and I was able to look at this passing with the more logical side of my brain. She had been ill and in pain, and her quality of life was now poor, it was all for the best. But it's not until someone is gone that you acquire a new outlook on their life, what they meant to you, what they meant to others. I imagine a sort of armor about me sometimes. To protect myself from the everyday trials and tribulations, keep myself strong, healthy, and in a good state of mind. Her memory and her love for me is part of that armor now.<br />
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I have been working on this particular entry for a little while now. From the original 10 day countdown I began with, I now end with only 7. My original entry seemed easy, flowed so naturally. It was an introduction; to explain myself, my objective, throw in an odd joke here and there. What's seemed slightly more daunting in the follow up entries is keeping your attention. Conveying the peace I'm in pursuit of without coming off too preachy or obnoxious. To have something interesting enough to write about. This is just my life...no more, no less. Recently an old friend told me how interesting it was that I gave the impression that I cared so much about what some thought of me, while simultaneously not really caring at all. That's just the sort of useless character analysis that fits me so perfectly. I don't mind digging through garbage for food. I don't mind sleeping in the park. I don't mind sitting on the street corner, looking (and probably smelling) dirty, while the beautiful, clean people turn their noses up to me as they pass by. That's my choice. I don't want to be a burden on anyone, my goal is independence, and as long as I can maintain that personal bar I've set, I feel no shame in the downcast looks people may give. And I've been that upturned nose so I know that I'm not missing out on anything by doing otherwise now. But what I do care about...I want people to think I'm clever. Sometimes funny. But especially, well-written.Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215850187782109036noreply@blogger.com0Medford, OR, USA42.3265152 -122.875594942.2326002 -123.03352339999999 42.420430200000006 -122.7176664tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568642422603639529.post-55102535950109124892012-02-09T15:25:00.000-08:002012-02-09T18:39:17.349-08:00This Is A Test.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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My name is Jacob, I'm camping on the island of Oahu, and I hope to backpack around the world. I grew up in Northern California, and had been living in San Francisco for the last year or so. My full time job at the dildo factory I was so fortunate to land, left me unfulfilled, despite its pretenses. So I quit one day and jetted off to to the island of Kauai with a man I'd met roaming about on Castro Street one night. These are the sorts of decisions that I make sometimes. I returned to my family home after about two weeks of staying with him in his very nice house in Kapa'a. Seeing as now I had no job, no home to return to other than my parents', I booked a flight to Oahu this time around, to continue the adventure, and with the intentions of going international once I'd had my fill of the islands.<br />
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I'm interested in food foraging, raw diets, multilingual people, TEFL, puppies, backpacking, and of course, traveling abroad. I have in my possession my trusty Acer notebook, a Canon Powershot A10 model for documenting purposes (1.3 megapixels, don't pretend you're not impressed), a passport, and my super awesome hiker's backpack with all the essential tarps, tent, knives, bandages, etc etc. I can hardly remember a single camping trip from my childhood, have been a self-proclaimed "city boy" up until a recent point, and usually operate through a sporadic, not necessarily the most informed, exciting form of decision making! I've found that generally, everything ends up alright in the end. So far, I've trekked about three quarters of the island's perimeter, turned my feet into the open woundiest wounds you can imagine, spent a spicy night on the west side of the island (Waianae; as described by a friend: "Rampant amounts of crack, don't be there past 5 pm") and lots of other fun sights along the way. So far I've found that for a complete novice at this type of hobo-ing, I have been most fortunate in an extreme amount of luck, excellent friends, and the beneficiary of several random acts of kindness. I only have good things to say about Hawai'i. So let's see where it takes me! At the moment I am sitting in the Laie McDonald's, filling out an application for Pizza Hut...yes, yes, I know..that's not what traveling vagabonds do. But I have my eyes set on bigger goals than this island paradise, and papa needs to get to Asia in the near future. Or..you know..wherever..<br />
So backpacking on my weekends, rolling in greasy pizza dough on my weekdays, who knows..Taking it day by day.<br />
The point is, I live in a tent on the beach and need to find something to occupy my time.<br />
This blog is probably mainly for my mom.<br />
What can I say?<br />
I'm a popular guy.Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215850187782109036noreply@blogger.com8Laie, HI, USA21.6486111 -157.925555621.6338526 -157.9452966 21.6633696 -157.90581459999999