Assignment 3-Tag Howard

In all honesty, I travel much less than I would like to. While I've been all around Kentucky, I have only been outside of the US once (to the Dominican Republic) and ended up seeing far less of it than I had hoped to. Within the US, however, I have been around. Mostly on family trips and vacations; we take an annual trip to Hilton Head Island, I have been there 14 of the 16 years of my life. But when it comes to truly enriching trips, vacation doesn't really make the cut. My family does, however, go hiking often, something I have become quite adept at after so many trips. Though most of our trips are to smaller places like Mcconnell Springs or Raven Run on occasion, we will take longer trips out to the Red River Gorge or areas closer to Appalachia proper. It is on these trips I get to actually take some time and think. My mother is a massage therapist and constantly lectures my on the benefits of meditation, I don't sit for minutes on end but in the middle of these forests or at the top (or bottom) of a cliff or at the end of a long trek I get a moment of clarity that allows me to look inward towards what I'm actually doing in life and all the other mysteries of life.