The order was placed and a mere five days later it arrived. Jon Bowermaster's latest book, "Descending the Dragon." I was surprised that the book was not a few hundred pages as hoped for, it has a meek 140 pages, and even then some pages are deprived of text and instead have magnificent photographs of Vietnam. I am not disappointed.
The book was to be saved for my trip, but the size was bigger than I had imagined. It does fit in my purse, but then, what doesn't? I convinced myself it was best I read it now. I will work on my patience later.
I quickly fall in love with books about travel. Donald Miller has a book called "through painted deserts," which apparently was his first attempt at writing a Christian novel, but as he later describes, instead it was just a book about his travels and God played his normal role in the background. The theme I liked most in the book was that much of his travel was uncharted until he was in the moment. The same applies for Jon Bowermaster: he wanted to reshape Americans view of Vietnam and more importantly, wanted to reshape the Vietnamese view of Americans. His destination was set, his limitations implemented from the government, and the rest was just to see what happens. I love that.
So in my typical fickle fashion, I now want to work for National Geographic. Yup...what a dream. I've never wanted to travel until now. Correction: I've always wanted to travel, I've just never been willing to give up the comforts on my extra plush bed, my sweet dog, my late night television, and my familiar surroundings. I suppose I'll need a talent now: I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to master AP (erasing APA will probably be more difficult), maybe learn how to work a camera (once attempted and quickly put down), get a degree in international relations..learn a couple new languages... what do I need to do to get there? I figure I could start on something even if to put it down a couple weeks later. I think my bachelors will help. Yes...surely I'm on the right track.
PS, Robin doesn't know this yet but I'm getting my violin soon. Yup, he is going to find it in his heart to let me make this purchase...more importantly, he is going to give in and deal with having to listen to me learn. If I can learn how to play violin, surely I can travel with national geographic. Right? .... Right?
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I thought you had to master the drums on Rock Band before you get your violin.
That is lame. The best I got was a 95 on easy...and I played the song 3 times to get that high of a score. I'll never be expert.
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