>>7241001I'm glad I kinda helped.
Honestly the shit that stands out to me is when I said fuck it right after graduation and started planning a real ass roadtrip with my first real best friend from middle school. He lives in a southern state now, far from me, so I had to plan around where he lived. We both wanted to see some cool shit from the US before we really started locking down with college/military (respective for me and him). So we did a loop roadtrip from Texas, through New Mexico, then north to Colorado, then over to Oklahoma and back to Texas again. It was fun, we saw surreal sights of pure nature, made interesting memories (like the time we were coming through aspen on empty stomachs and our airbnb host made us some good ass spaghetti out of his damn heart) and honestly just gave us time to really, I guess think about shit. You can sit there in the driver seat for hours thinking about everything.
Recently went to nyc on a whim because I got depressed and needed an escape so for some reason I decided the concrete jungle was the best way to escape for a little bit with some friends. Not sure why I decided to go there other than the fact that before this I've never really been there. My friends came with me for fun and it was... an interesting time. Kind of the opposite of the whole touristy type trip. Word of advice, don't stay in East Brooklyn. Other than that, it was nice, the city is fun. Took a lot of 35mm pics possibly worthy of /wg/ haha. We just lost ourselves in the streets for hours on the days we were there and that was the most fun about it. No real structure other than some things we wanted to see.
I feel like I'm talking about myself too much now haha. Point is, try to go by this quote: "Move, go, journey, address the new and different, acknowledge the vast distance and all of the epic social and cultural pluralism and then — at the same time — celebrate the commonality of being human as well." - Anthony Bourdain