Ever since pokémon came out, the idea of traveling from town to town, living off the kindness of strangers and pokémon centers while having a blast, I've always wanted to pick a day and just start walking in one direction from my home, see how far I can get before it gets too dark and see what happens during the day.

Of course, I wouldn't want to do that exactly, I'd hate to be on the street at night, even in my own town/city. Seriously, even walking down town at night gave me chills the few times I did, something about being surrounded by concrete and loose tempered people everywhere... it's kind of scary. But still, just once, I'd like to pick a direction and see how far I got.

Being somewhat bored today, I did what everyone on the internet eventually does for fun: I google mapped my home, to see what's around here. My first thought: Wow, alot of people have pools! Then my second thought: how would a neighbor react if you went to their house, knock on the door, and they answer it to see you in a bathing suit saying "Yeah, I googled my neighborhood and saw you had a pool... can we be friends?"

I'm actually somewhat a coward, I'd never do that, but gosh it sounds fun if a neighborhood was actually friendly. My guess is I would either have the door slammed in my face, have cops called on me (just look for a tall white guy), or shoot me themselves. Anyway, off the pool subject.

Looking at my home from above, there isn't a single park I could go to. This is a bummer to me too, because that means the only time I can be outside under trees and such with other people is if I go sixty something miles away to a state park for camping (which I enjoy doing, but don't get to do enough). It also seems if I did pick a direction to go, I'd have to go through a maze of houses and alternate neighborhoods before I either got to a highway, emptiness, or crowded rural area. The only places that say "park" doesn't look like parks at all, they have baseball diamonds or other sport related tracks void of trees. Is it really that hard to find a place with nice trees to be, like the city parks seen in movies? More specifically, one that is in walking distant, somehow driving to one takes away the fun.

Maybe this is why people choose to go backpacking in Europe. There's actually Stuff there that's interesting! I'd love to do that some day, I probably won't ever be able to but it at least was a nice idea. This is probably why I'm home at my computer a lot, what interests me isn't exactly in existence in my own city. I don't go out with friends either, the friends I have are classmates, and they only seem to be friends while I'm in class. Then, there's you, my fellow deviants, but we're all stretched across the globe, can't really do anything but draw.

With this, there's only one thing I'm looking forward to at the moment: exploring CA with Amber. It's in another state, a place I've never been, any new sights would be pleasant to me; of course, I won't forget, having her be the one showing me around will make it that much more fun. I like going to new places, even going to the zoo a few months ago, despite being for a drawing class, I got a kick out of it! In fact, as long as I wasn't standing in one place, I wouldn't mind being outside where the sun is, I'd just glop on sunscreen (spf 100 of course) so long as I had some place to go.

Alas, I will be stuck inside for the majority of my college years, creating 3D landscapes that don't exist and are only explorable via moving the camera, and even then so I create those places so there is nothing new. To me, that's the main downside of your own art, sure their is improvement, but what you create can't really surprise you. The kick is how other people react to it, and that's why I like writing, and should continue to write; sure it's pokémon, but all the reactions and places being visited are mine.

In closing to this very spontaneous journal, thank you google maps for showing how crappy everything is outside and around me. There are houses everywhere (and probably for most of whoever actually reads my journals, despite that I don't read other's often at all), with people that may or may not have lives either. If only times were simpler, I think being a native would have been cool, hunting and fishing and storytelling with elders by a fire, yeah that'd be neat. All well.

Peace out.