I'm sitting in a library right now trying to figure out how it is possible that my documentary adventure is still a float. The boat that is my dream is filled with patched up holes and duck tape repaired seams. The majority of this trip has not gone according to plan and for a while that had me stressed out.
But I am on the adventure of a lifetime and I refuse to let kinks in my hose ruin my attitude! I have discovered that you can't prepare for a trip like this, you can only really depend on the beggining and the end. sometimes not even that. Still, the middle is the part that is completley unknown and that is good (sometimes). I recently just learned that my hard drive is alive and well! Thankgoodness!!! That was deffinitly not planned, but in the process I met great people. learned from my mistakes and grew from it all.
I'm absorbing a great deal of things while I'm on this trip and I have no intention to be swayed by a kink again.
If I had to sum up what I have learned on this trip so far, I would say that the world is filled with people who are all a different shade of kindness. The pure evil that is publisized on the television is such a minute percent of the people in this world. Which is a relief. I left Kodiak not sure of what my documentary was going to look like.."what if the America I found was lame?"... but now I know for certain that America is one of the friendliest places on earth. And the American dream is very alive.
Out Of The Wild: An Alaskan's Adventure To Find America
My name is John. I was born and raised in Alaska. I have been hearing how the American Dream is no longer possible for my generation; how the pursuit of a college education will leave my peers and me in crippling debt; and America is no longer the beacon of hope it once was. Too many of my generation believe what they are hearing. I am not going to surrender to such news.
Using my bicycle, a tent, and a camera I will tell this story in a documentary I call “Finding My America”. I will begin in my hometown of Kodiak, Alaska on May 22, 2012. I am partnering with small businesses that will sponsor this trip. I am working with many Subway restaurant owners who are sponsoring me in exchange for a commercial I will make and post on the Internet.
2 comments:
hello John
this is Jerry McClenahan....yesterday i left you in Cassoday KS...and i hope that you were in good hands there and that you got the materials necessary for repairs.
My family gathered last night for dinner and we looked at your blog with interst.
We are praying for you...and please let us know how it is going.
my email is jjmchm53@yahoo.com
God bless..
JOHN,
YOU HAVE COME A LONG WAY ON
YOUR THUS FAR SHORT TRIP OF LIFE.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GAIN OF WISDOM IN SO SHORT A TIME. WE APPLAUD YOU AND YOUR ACHIEVMENTS. WE SUPPORT YOU ALL THE WAY !
CAROL & RANDY
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