An Excitement We Hope Never Dies

After getting married, about 26 days ago now, I woke up and looked around at a world which was familiar, comfortable and warm. Jack was the same, I was the same, but there was a feeling of newness, of something we couldn't quite take in. We couldn't feel it with any sense we knew, but we both had this strange excitment to our "good mornings" and every once in awhile one of us would burst out, "We're married!"



Perhaps this feeling is par for the course for newlyweds. (Hopefully that is the case.) Whatever it is, our excitment continues. We're packing up our Denver apartment (I having graduated in June and he having taken the year off from teaching, perhaps in persuit of another career) to travel for nine and a half months, all over the globe, in search of a bit of everything. The most of which, I hope, is perspective.



This blog is both my attempt to keep my family and friends informed of my travels and as a way to document my encounters with our changing environment. As I studied environmental security in graduate school, I'm fascinated with climate change and the ways in which our lives could be threatened, or at the very least, altered by it. I'm looking forward to the many people and places we'll visit this year, and I hope I can share some of those encounters with you.



So off we go, in just 5 days. Maybe, somewhere along the way we'll find something to represent this excitement we feel, something concrete, something we can grasp between our fingers, taste or smell or see.