Photo: Velvet Millar

Travel Away from Here.

January, 2008.

Leaving the country, which ever country might be ‘the country’ for you, is one of the most important things you will ever do. There's a lot of growing up involved in travelling away from 'here'. I suggest you do it as soon as possible.

This summer gone, I travelled to Singapore, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

This trip, my trip, is the most rewarding thing that I’ve done so far in my life, and it will be the most rewarding thing you will ever do as well.

If you can, try and do it with someone you love. We’re not all as lucky as that, and even some of those who are will be scared to try it. But I can’t urge you strongly enough to travel, to go on a journey, with the one you love.

I did, I was lucky enough, and along the way I felt our hearts meet. While we flew, trained and bussed our way through eight different countries, we two were truly in the same place with one another for what felt like the very first time.

To me now, my other, she’s more than just a girlfriend, she’s more than an equal. She is my counterpoint.

She is that which makes me more than I am.

On our journey together I have learned so much of myself and of her that the two are now entangled, sweetly inseparable like honey in milk.

So the only advice that I will ever offer you earnestly in this place is this:

Go now. Dear reader, go.

Plan your odyssey, buy your tickets.

Go and make love in the soft grey light

of a Prague morning.

Kiss in the bright golden light

Of a Paris sunset,

And learn,

learn who you truly are.

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