Why am I doing this?

Well, since I will be sending this blog site to everyone I know, I might as well address the question that I get asked everytime someone hears about my little endeavor. Why am I moving overseas for a year and a half? The answer is simple. Why not? I am young, I have no ties to the United States that would keep me from traveling, and, well, I really enjoy what little traveling I've done.
Also, for whatever reason, the Lord made me a little different than most, and I think any of my friends or family can attest to this, and I am simply unstimulated and unsatisfied with the normal and average lifestlyes and experiences. I guess that I bore easily and crave the things most don't bother reaching for. My favorite author, Donald Miller, wrote a book about his own experience of selling all he had and taking a road trip across the country to experience the deeper things of life and offered a quote that hit home with me and what I'm doing,

"Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true..."

Most people think I am halfway crazy for just leaving all I know behind for some random trip to Australia, but I honestly think this is something many dream of doing, and few dare have the nerve, bravery, and stupidity to do themselves.

But it seems quite simple to me however; I want to travel and see the world, the Lord has blessed me with all the avenues to make this feasible, it will be something to remember for a lifetime...why would I not go? Just because its out of my comfort zone does not inhibit me from taking this trip, so I will soon be on my way!

I'll be in Australia from Feb 5th to June 5th, then New Zealand from June '08 to June '09. While over there I will find whatever random jobs I can find, since I will be on a temporary work visa, it's going to be hard to find any major jobs, but my main goal is to travel as much as possible, so I will do whatever I can find to pay the bills and finance these journeys.

I am not going to "find myself" as I've been mockingly asked my many, that just sounds lame. What does that even mean? I'm not going to find the Lord, He found me. I'm also not running away from anything here or trying to escape real life.

My goals are these; I want to meet some interesting folks, see some things I would never see otherwise from a Dallas cubicle, hopefully share the love of Christ, and turn the things I believe about life and the Lord into things that I actually trust...head knowledge into heart knowledge. And if these hopes are too high and I completely bomb and accomplish none of them, I'd at least like to hold a koala bear..I'd still call that a win.