Don't Let the Blog Title Mislead You

I'm still a little ambivalent about creating a blog and am already considering abandoning it for emails as a way of updating people about my travels, but we'll see. Another note on the formation of this blog: I totally stole the idea from Matt...so thanks and sorry matt.

The title came from Springsteen's Born to Run ("Tramps like us, baby we were born to run") and I thought of using it during a conversation with my brother about the American Myth of self-creation and the ability to pick up and move, forget the past what you did and who you were and start anew. From there we starting talking about Born to Run (album and song) and the ideas in it of escape and the potentials of the road. After all, "these two lanes will take us anywhere."

I leave for Vienna on monday. Wish me luck, I'll need it.