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Eve of Departure
Potomac Falls, Virginia

Sunday - June 2, 2002

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It is the Eve of my departure and I am doing something I thought I was done doing. I'm pulling an all nighter. Not since my days at William & Mary have I done such a thing-when I would cram a week's worth of wisdom into the space of an hour before class. Now, I am preparing myself for the trip, packing my gear-repacking-trying to figure out what I really don't need.

I have found that I can prepare and prepare forever and still not go anywhere. That's why I'm leaving on Monday June 3rd no matter what, rain or shine.

I have all the needful things: gortex in case of rain, a tent for shelter, even a hammock for those balmy summer nights when I want to sleep above and beyond the buggy soil yet just enough beneath the stars that I may fall into a gemlit slumber. Those are just a few things I carry.

There are more weighty things I carry that no beast of burden cycle trailer could carry. I have a grail. Contained within is a cosmos of good times, unremembered kindness, beauty, and love bestowed upon me by friends, family and strangers.

So let me now apologize for my writing style. This web journal doesn't just record my experiment in living, but also my experiment in writing. I will write in the moment-whatever I feel and think will be written as it comes to me. This may lead to rambling, incoherent or non-linear chaotic text. But, I ask that you don't let this deter you from reading and following my progress. Patterns, connections, and order may or may not exist at anyone point in my text. One cloddy fragment may actually be a fossilized dino-claw just poking through the surface of windswept badlands after eons of slumber. In other words I will attempt to write unconsciously. The downside is (and I hope all you Scifis will appreciate this analogy) this will be like a Vulcan mind meld. You, my friends, will have access to my thoughts and feelings. Together we will journey through the wilds and hoods of America. We will see things. We will feel things. Together we will listen to America sing. What song does she sing now?

Hmmm... what else do I carry? I carry a salty sea bag of all the things I have taken for granted. Rummaging in through the bag, past the leather boots, camouflage, and medals I find my love for my family, my mother whose creativity, motivation, and patriotism I seemed to have inherited (and who makes this website possible with her webmastery), my father whose creativity (yes, the Force is strong in my family), intelligence, and courage I like to think I've inherited, and my beautiful and intelligent sister, who is well on her way to becoming even more beautiful and intelligent a woman than she will ever give herself credit for. And also the love I have for all my friends and family everywhere-from the past, present and future; from Andy Heinz who became my best friend back in Kindergarten after we established common ground in our mutual interest in the Smurfs and who let me cut in front on him when we used to lead the line to the cafeteria (Springfield, VA), to Matt Blasiak (my buddy in Seymour High School, CT), to Carlos Ribiero, Henry Lazarus Posadas, the Cuban Scam Artist of UNITAS-USMC, my buddies during a 1997 deployment to South America, and now, Dan Miller, a dealer of exotic sarcasm and excellent mix CDs. And finally, for one whose heart I took most of all for granted, one whose heart, I, like a base Judean who threw a pearl richer than all his tribe out to sea, took for granted.

So now I ride to follow the sun, with God at my back, and the spirit of adventure coursing through my sunwarmed veins.

Lets ride!

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