This blog post is being written after the second night of Passover 2016. Tomorrow morning is the flight to Chicago for the start of the RV road trip. I’m excited to begin the adventure and looking forward to all of the memories, experiences, and realizations that I’ll have over the next month. As of tonight, the preliminary map for the road trip is as follows:
Along with the excitement, there is a lot of anxiety/concerns. A few of my thoughts are as follows:
- Driving any motor vehicle (especially an RV) needs 100% of the driver’s attention. I shouldn’t use my phone in any way ( including searching for music, scrolling through facebook, checking email, etc) if the car isn’t in park or turned off. It would be reckless and I know better than to be a distracted RV driver.
- During the last few weeks, I’ve spent many hours thinking about topics such as religion, sex, travel, drugs, friendship, goals, happiness, and more. I hope that I’ll be able to continue making time to think about what I’m doing and apply my realizations to decision making
- It’s been 35 days that I’ve been sticking to my resolutions. I’m very proud of my progress and am confident that I’ll be able to maintain my resolutions throughout the road trip
- I’m concerned about loneliness and lack of human interaction. I’ll need to make a great effort have conversations, introduce myself to people, and attend Meetup events in cities I’m visiting.
- I should plan the first few days of the Road trip. The first few days will be busy and it makes sense to try to spend all the time I can enjoying the cities rather than planning the itineraries during my time in the cities.
