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A few hours ago, the postman delivered an
envelope containing my birth certificate & passport. Wow, a US
passport! Now that, is something
2 think
about. I mean, here I am, going on 5 years inside
this hostel environment & I haven't even left the west coast of North America.
I spent most of that time
flirting & running a muck in Vegas.
You know the routine - partying 'til dawn, shooting photographs &
building the web site you're looking at right now.
I was in room 311 @ The LVBP with 2 cans of Red Bull & a pack of gummy worms, reading
all your e-mails & letters.
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 Sebastian, Thomas, Geo, Johanna, Reto, Marlen & Nadine | Las Vegas, NV |
Throughout
it all, I never had a passport. No passport is probably what kept me
in Vegas so long. How else can you explain falling head over heals
4
someone, yet not following her Swiss smile on some wild photographic
adventure, somewhere far west of here. So, after all this
time. After countless promises,
hand shakes, e-mails & kisses
good-bye, I think I'm finally gonna do it. I'm gonna spread my wings
& fly. Not 2 Vegas, because that just isn't good enough
anymore.
The Grand Canyon will always be one of the greatest wonders
of the world, however, it's just a hole in the ground. My last road trip 2 Mexico was cancelled
& the dot-com boom in San Francisco turned
out 2 be the biggest dot-bomb of them all. My
father once wrote: "When I was young, I wanted to go
to Europe & backpack across
each country on a bicycle & the boxcar of a train... A dream that never
materialized."
I believe this dream is found in a lot of
Americans, young & old. It's a different way of life over here &
without a GapYear.com web site 2 cheer
us on, the good
old American lifestyle has us chained 2 the ground before our
eyes are able 2 explore the world around us.Well,
I think it's time 2 replace all of yesterday's mis-adventures
with visions
of Scandinavia & driving 2 Germany with a few crazy Danes, just 2
purchase some Danish beer. I think I wanna hang out with Roma in
Barcelona, while Mike, Stu
& the whole Brighton crew gear up 4 my weekend retreat. It looks
as if I will fly into London in the middle of November, so I better
keep those long sleeved shirts & close knit
sweaters packed tightly in
my bag. I'm definitely going 2 visit Vital in
Maasmechelen & Kirsten in Zeewolde.
Maud/PHOTOgirl, I'll be knocking on your
door, sometime
in the near future. I hope you can find the time 2
spend a few weeks with me, because when I look down upon this cheesy
looking American passport...
"All I can see are photographs of an unwritten future!"
