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"A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." - John Steinbeck

One thing that Jess and I swore to each other about our JOURNEY to Seattle would be this - we would let the JOURNEY evolve. We didn't have a set destination each night. We didn't have particular food places to stop at (other than the ones that we had wedding gift cards from). We weren't committed to a certain type or caliber of motel. Most importantly?
We didn't have a time table.
It seems to me that it would be a terrible thing to drive 2300 miles across the country and not stop to see anything interesting. There are so many stops, so many sights, so many people, between Grand Rapids and Seattle. If we had simply rocketed past them, we would have missed so many opportunities we would probably never get again.
It's the same way with our life JOURNEY. I'm sure it's easy to just settle into a forty hour work week and live my life without ever really living it. Without experiencing the sights and sounds and smells of the people and places I'm in. Routine and habit become friends that we're comfortable with. It's so much easier, wherever we go, to order the same meal at that same chain restaurant. I know exactly what I'm getting.
But if you did that, you would miss out on the Corn Palace's of the world. Or the Charleston Cafe's. You would miss entire genre's of life.
So as strange and as hard as it may be sometimes, we need to slay the dragons of routine and habit. And live life experimentally.