I just stumbled back onto my blog, in disbelief the months and years have passed by so quickly.. I don't really have a witty comment or tender story to tell of travel, life or love .. just a happy appreciation and gentle longing for the happiness, time, diversity and adventure this trip brought me.  I don't have that same feeling in my gut and heart to travel beyond and explore with the same passion and necessity I felt back then.  I have new challenges, interests and motivations now, that drive me to different places that may not be so far in distance, but are just the same in the courage, strength and tenacity they call upon.  To those who feel the travel bug, or the call of the wind to blow them in new directions, I recommend with all I have to follow those passions that are burning.  If those fires burn out, all that shines around them will be lost, and you'll never see all the wonderful things they lit up around them, and the new places they led you to.