Not all who wonder are lost

Well I guess I'm just not one to stay in the same place for very long. The road is calling me, and I must have free nights and weekends b/c I have to anwser. The whole reason I started this blog over a year ago was to force me to think about the places I go and to "stop and smell the roses." Well I can say, I have learned to do that - maybe too good. I was thinking the other day about travel and I started to wonder if travel is a natural thing? Is moving from place to place something natural to humans? Is it possible that the hunter and gather's of history passed on a travel gene? I think it is possible. Travel is part of life and I think it will be forever - like food and water for the mind and soul. Let me tell a story to make the point:A couple of weeks ago I quit my job at Crackel Brarrel b/c I had earned enough to go to Brazil and I was tired of waiting tables. It is hard to be motivated after you know your only goal for a job is complete. Well I went to talk to the mamager, Janice, to tell her I wasn't coming back. We had a long conversation about travel, working in a resturant, and Brazil. Well in the middle of the conversation she said to me "I have never been anywhere." She said it like a confession. Like she was telling me she wasn't really complete - well that is how I heard it. I felt so sad at that moment. Not b/c she hasn't traveled but b/c she could never know what she was missing until she traveled. Somehow at that moment in the resturant, with all the sounds of food cooking and plates moving around the kitchen, all I heard was slience realizing how empty my life without travel would be.Travel must be innate to humans. If not the poor little cavemen would have just stayed in the same spot when all the animals, berries, and nuts dryed up.