Whitmanesque

The journey whose spirit inspired me the most was that which Whitman describes in his "Song of the Open Road." While I don't know if I would drop everything and become a traveling street person, the almost religious epiphanies which Whitman speaks of that can only happen onthe road are almost dreamlike to me. I don't know if I would welcome complete strangers to travel with me but I also wouldn't travel with a group of friends. Possibly only myself or one friend. The thing that got me most about Whitman's messages was how much the road can change you. The beautiful nature that will surround you and hold you which can inspire a person to great heights. The complete strangers that you meet along the way that will impact the rest of your life. And of course the wisdom that a Whitmanesque traveller will come back with. The road in a sense can become one’s home because of how much it provides a person, spiritually, intellectually and physically. I think there is so much in Whitman's words that rings true to most people's inner soul. I think that this is why he is still read and studied and admired and loved by so many. I need this kind of journey. I don't know what I would do or where I would go but I know that I would not take any of it for granted and I would be completely open to everything that came my way. I would have to travel somewhere in which a stop to Monument Valley was made. I am a big fan of John Ford Westerns and I have always wanted to go here, where a hero of mine was inspired so greatly to have filmed roughly 85% of his Western pictures within this region. Maybe some of the magic of this place could rub off on me and inspire me to think about life in a different way or enlighten me in another way. I would have to take this trip with only one friend or myself because I think that otherwise I would miss a lot of the journey along the way. I would be too caught up with them, in something I already knew, to truly make this a Whitmanesque journey. I’ve been too dormant for too long.