Eventful Uneventful Event

As the school year grinds away teasingly, Katy and Becca painfully stake out the final months before their adventure. With a semi-finalized packing list, a quasi-finalized itinerary, and a fully final reservation, things are comparatively well.

In the recent weeks, hell...months and years, reminders of life's shortness have abruptly shook us. At this time more than ever, we find it necessary to persevere and realize that we might be paralyzed by a runaway roller coaster car or made brain-dead by botched Lasik eye surgery, but instead of fearing these inevitable fates (I prefer the roller coaster), it is better to embrace what we have - which is negative 300 dollars and a dream - and roll with it, for lack of a better cliche. We're young, mobile and lucky kids. We understand out pitfalls and our graces, but put aside both to achieve something greater. Something our own. Although a mutual journey, the experience is highly egocentric. Not a terrible thing, but something to confess; We are lucky to have each other's support and friendship but when the sky falls and we're all left to whatever it is will appear at the end of the world - we only have ourselves. For all the parents who never made it past Ohio, the grandparents who never made it past the neighboring town - this is all for you. Us, and you.

-Katy & Becca