Ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Geduld

Travel plans are very difficult for me to assemble. There are so many opportunities, and just as many constraints. All week I have been on the verge of purchasing a plane ticket to Europe, but as of yet I have not. The prospect of spending every last dime in the bank for a near aimless solo wander through foreign lands is both exciting beyond measure and terrifying beyond belief. My foreign language skills are very limited. This time frame of travel would financially prohibit me from playing in an ice hockey league this season. And yet I can't shake from my mind that this is a very necessary trip to make. 

Financially it makes the most sense to go to Asia, where I could pick up a job teaching English as a foreign language, make a respectable income and have enough free time to explore and learn things on the side. Yet the unseen force that pulls the strings of desire within me don't take me there. 

Frozen Lake

The disaster of letting someone poisonous into your life so deeply is crushing one of my friends. I hope that he can free himself from the depressing cycle that she is pulling him down.

Thank you for your patience.