Chapter: ISSUE 11: Secret
Location: Camp
Bragging Showcase, ADDENDUM!
Today we are featuring two more awesome braggers, The Mountain and So Vanessa.
This is the map of The Mountain’s travels over two and a half months during the Summer of 2011. 9,500 miles, 22 states, mostly on a Greyhound bus. The Mountain, do you feel different now? Did travel change you?
This is So Vanessa’s Gossip Girl collection. She says, “I have every single book, and most are signed. I can randomly quote like every word of GG and I wanted to do an english report on Because I’m Worth It but my teacher wouldn’t let me. The show sucks.”
TM and SV, congratulations to you both. You’ve joined the ranks of our esteemed braggarship.
your admirer,
maggie
PS: So Vanessa, you should send this article to your super square teacher:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/03/10/080310crat_atlarge_malcolm?currentPage=1
OGM thanks I can’t wait to shove that in his face
I never planned to be traveling that long or ending up where I did, it just sorta happened that way after finding some very unexpected courage and inspiration early on. It kept me company on all the long rides and in all the lonely cities.
If I’ve changed since then, it’s only after finding what I love and want most and deciding to make it the best of who I am.
And every day was a story! I was my newly-wed friends’ first house guest twice (Georgia and Oregon). Alligators on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Crazy poets on busses in South Dakota. Firestorms in Texas. I even got to see my favorite musician play one of his few shows in years. Letting go of caution and just letting my feet, wheels and ambition take me wherever they would, or could, go.
After not knowing where I was going, and still somehow find my way there, I now feel better about stopping for a little while to truly make something great. I feel good, and I know I can find what I’m after.
Thanks for posting my little adventure with all the other quality bragging going on around here!
Ahh, this did post.
I’m using public internet with a questionable agenda, and my computer croaked right when I posted this, so I wasn’t sure if it got out and posted another. Oh well, double posts are a reality of the internet.
Double posts = double fun. I just combined them.
I’ve never heard of a firestorm. Sounds apocalyptic
Thanks Maggie.
This one was small from what I understand firestorms can become. It’s when a tornado or windstorm kicks up over wildfire and it sucks the flame up. I saw it from miles away and thought that it was a massive storm until I smelled the smoke and saw licks of flame . The photo doesn’t do it near any justice (and you can’t see much of the apocalypticness).
[img]http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/304764_10150295986746313_521511312_7831262_2706039_n.jpg[/img]
This same day, I drove through a tropical depression in Birmingham too. The weather was not on my side.
If there’s any road I’ve ever been on that is just absolutely amazing every inch of the way, it’s I-10. All sorts of nothing out there. It’s beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t17K3SIUafA&feature=youtu.be
Whoa. If I saw this, I think I would want to run straight into its black fiery center