1st all I can say is blown away! You come to a moment in your life where your quite not sure what to expect the next day, but you know the day you just had has changed your life forever.
Its funny the people I talk to who have had the opportunity to travel extensively, I often ask them the question of what is the one thing that stands out in your trips? Or the most memorable moments? You know what the most often answer is? The People. And today for the first time I can begin to understand what that is.
There are 8 of us that that were hired to be new Tour Leaders within a company called Trek America where we will travel all over the U.S. taking mostly foreigners on adventure tours from large cities to national parks. And the 8 that were hired are all such diverse, friendly, intelligent, and humble people, who can hold conversations and have innovative ideas.
You have Tito a phillipino kid from New Jersey, who has spent numerous time in South America, but mostly Colombia, who also happens to be my first roommate with Trek America . Two Johns one from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the other from Pennsylvania who is currently living in New Port Beach, California. There are two females that were hired one has her PhD working as a Civil Engineer in Antarctica and she is from Georgia her name is Alex, and then there is Anna a girl from Seattle who just came from working in Alaska for fun. There's Woody who is a rafter from Tennessee area near Chattanooga. Jake from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who was living in Boulder, Colorado.
Its the people that truly create the experiences that incur. All tour leaders with all their own distinct personalities coming into harmony for we may all be different but our philosophies in which living our lives for now all rides on the same harmonic wave!
Its been a long day of studying, test taking, getting to know one another, and looking forward to the next adventure for an adventure are experiences sometimes presented as challenges you overcome or accomplish and seeing that though one another these challenges are better often tackled together, what an adventure. Its a beautiful thing.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Adventure Is Out There!
"Adventure Is Out There"- Is only the beginning.
My name is Gregory James McLean, I am a 25 year old male, who also happens to be retired! Retired from living life as a delusion.
My adventure started off long ago, as a child, playing outside on my street 1337 Denver St., Boulder City, Nevada, growing up squeezing every ounce out of the day with as much fun and excitement as possible. Is there really any reason why that should EVER change? Its when we try to make life more serious than it has to be that we stop having fun and life doesn't become living but more like a punishable task. Wake up work all day-in a job that I hate-to have WAY more than I need to only impress others-who care more about your status than who you really are-to never satisfy the soul-to eat only when I have a second to breathe-to fall asleep exhausted-to only look forward to repeating a task that really makes me miserable-to pretend to be happy-to be around people who pretend to be happy but are closer than jumping off the cliff than the guy with a gun to his head! Is this really what we must accept as being societal successful? Hell NO!
One must find what drives it, what its passions are, desires, for adventure to one is a bore to another. For adventure to me is a thrill, the venture of not knowing and accomplishing. We can only begin to search for happiness, adventure, and love, when we are content with who we are, if we are not satisfied with our own being we will struggle to find positives in anything.
I'd like to truly thank my family and friends, for its living with them and the experiences we had that lead me to realize what true happiness is, what true adventure is, what true excitement is. That life is not lived in ages but in phases. For every once in a while there comes a time in one's life where a choice is made that drastically changes its being. For me although I haven't quite lived it, I believe that one of those life altering roads is a route in which I am about to take and want to take. I will be accepting a job as a tour leader for a company called Trek America!
For all my working life I have spent it in Las Vegas lovely Casino life, luckily for me a good portion of it was working in its resort pool areas, but still, I had to deal with greed eating casino deusche bags more often than I would have liked. But now I will be traveling the majority of North America, and portions of Central and South America as a Adventure Tour Guide, taking people mostly foreigners on trips across these beautiful nations. Unfortunately the only down side is I will be gone from my family and friends, I will miss them so : ( My dream of adventure, of seeing the world, and broadening my perspective of just about everything is amazingly about to come into fruition. Although this is a job to me its more of an experience, a treacherous mountain I want to climb, for a job is something that you don't want to do but have to, to live life as a delusion is to pretend to work for a job you like. Thankfully due to my friends and family I will no longer live my life as a delusion but an ADVENTURE!
My name is Gregory James McLean, I am a 25 year old male, who also happens to be retired! Retired from living life as a delusion.
My adventure started off long ago, as a child, playing outside on my street 1337 Denver St., Boulder City, Nevada, growing up squeezing every ounce out of the day with as much fun and excitement as possible. Is there really any reason why that should EVER change? Its when we try to make life more serious than it has to be that we stop having fun and life doesn't become living but more like a punishable task. Wake up work all day-in a job that I hate-to have WAY more than I need to only impress others-who care more about your status than who you really are-to never satisfy the soul-to eat only when I have a second to breathe-to fall asleep exhausted-to only look forward to repeating a task that really makes me miserable-to pretend to be happy-to be around people who pretend to be happy but are closer than jumping off the cliff than the guy with a gun to his head! Is this really what we must accept as being societal successful? Hell NO!
One must find what drives it, what its passions are, desires, for adventure to one is a bore to another. For adventure to me is a thrill, the venture of not knowing and accomplishing. We can only begin to search for happiness, adventure, and love, when we are content with who we are, if we are not satisfied with our own being we will struggle to find positives in anything.
I'd like to truly thank my family and friends, for its living with them and the experiences we had that lead me to realize what true happiness is, what true adventure is, what true excitement is. That life is not lived in ages but in phases. For every once in a while there comes a time in one's life where a choice is made that drastically changes its being. For me although I haven't quite lived it, I believe that one of those life altering roads is a route in which I am about to take and want to take. I will be accepting a job as a tour leader for a company called Trek America!
For all my working life I have spent it in Las Vegas lovely Casino life, luckily for me a good portion of it was working in its resort pool areas, but still, I had to deal with greed eating casino deusche bags more often than I would have liked. But now I will be traveling the majority of North America, and portions of Central and South America as a Adventure Tour Guide, taking people mostly foreigners on trips across these beautiful nations. Unfortunately the only down side is I will be gone from my family and friends, I will miss them so : ( My dream of adventure, of seeing the world, and broadening my perspective of just about everything is amazingly about to come into fruition. Although this is a job to me its more of an experience, a treacherous mountain I want to climb, for a job is something that you don't want to do but have to, to live life as a delusion is to pretend to work for a job you like. Thankfully due to my friends and family I will no longer live my life as a delusion but an ADVENTURE!
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