...but it hits me: i love this travel alone. thisthis is not like the month-long belizean trot: perhaps i was not free enough from...? to. be. free.

how can i come home with nothing to say? i know you're going to look at me that way, and ask 'what did you do out there?' 'what did you find?' 'you said you needed time; you had time. you had time.' ~ani difranco, you had time.