Obligatory first post

As it stands:

I'm 22 and as much as I can reassure myself of the contrary; nothing in my life is certain. Hindsight may be 20:20, but the vision of the future is somewhere in the ballpark of 1:2000. As it stands, I have 2 days left to spend in New York City before I begin yet another adventure. On March 11 I will sit on a plane, reach a mild level of intoxication and spend 16 hours getting to my new home for the next 4 months: Hawaii.

I was tired of what NYC had to offer me: the cold and the people and the stagnation of underemployment. Spontaneuity got the best of me and what started as a fantasy of fulfilling my wanderlust in early February became a definite plan in March. Anybody that has traveled before knows the feeling. You want to travel, you know you could do it, but you also know that most plans come to naught. The moment you press the obnoxiously-colored buy button (mine was orange because I used Kayak) on the ticketing site, you realize that these unlikely dreams are going to manifest themselves. It was as though I bet $360 against myself, and I am writing this in giddy excitement about what is to come.

I will arrive at Kona airport and be picked up by a friend that's been living on the island for some time. Ahead of us lie 8 days of wandering, camping and beach-bumming. After this, I am going to join a farm as part of the WWOOF program. I will obviously devote some time to describing this experience in a separate post, but suffice to say they grow avocados and coffee and I will be in my own personal definition of heaven.

I'm bringing my saxophone, one 55L backpack and a day pack. Hiking boots, water shoes and flip flops are going in. I bought these white pants in Thailand and they're going in too (these are pants that Jesus, had he been born in the 90's, would wear on the regular). Swim trunks, quick dry towel. Shirts, shirts, shirts. You get the picture. Speaking of pictures, this will be the only post without pictures, as I will be taking loads of them along my journey.

This is a very unstructured post but I will conclude with what I want to get out of my trip:
1) I'd like to live the life I've wanted for a while. Sustainable farming, lots of sun, lots of physical activity and a distinct lack of technology.
2) I'd like to get a solid tan
3) I'd like to spend more time meditating and putting all of my focus on one thing at a time
4) I'd like to induct more people into my travel family. Coming from a small family, making new connections is my favorite thing about travel
5) I'd like to try something completely new. In all honesty, I'm afraid that I will love this new lifestyle too much to go back on the path to a new career come fall. Only time will tell.

Thank you for reading this extremely disorganized collection of my thoughts and I owe you a coffee for the headache.
Much love,
Iven