318. August 11

"Fall is here. Here the yell. Back to school. Ring the bell."

~ White Stripes, "We're Going to Be Friends"

Public school has begun another year. I know, Utah starts things early.

It feels strange that for the first time in fifteen years, I am not preparing to go back to school, be it grade school or a university. My educational pursuits have been postponed for couple years so I can take a little jaunt to Russia. 

Moscow, Russia. Only seventeen inches on the map from the corner of Utah, across America, over the ocean, and through the European continent to the heart of Moscow. The adventure begins in 2 months and nine days. I am so excited to cross those seventeen little inches.

"...there was a language in the world that everyone understood...It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."

~ Paul Coehlo, The Alchemist