Crazy, Amazing, & Unexpected

   

 It has been a crazy, amazing, unexpected last couple days. Since I last wrote I reached Cork city safe and sound, found the hostel, discovered the lovely English market, made friends with a pair of young German guys, spontaneously went to the town of Kinsale with them, watched the hobbit in the TV room of the hostel, met two more people on a bathroom break a woman from LA and another from Canada and before I knew it I had been served up a delicious bowl of vegan pasta they had just made and was sharing dinner and stories. Then by midnight all five of us were laughing and talking and trading tips and stories and so went out into Cork for a drink, although I refrained from the actual drinking part but went just for the fun of it. We went to two pubs and then a McDonalds enjoying the Cork nightlife, which was almost busier then in the day and I'm talking two am. Finally we got back to the hostel, parted ways and went to bed. 

    While I was almost in shock about this great chunk of luck that seemed to have fallen my way (by that I mean companions to share in my adventure) from hearing their stories Cork was just another city making up the intricate network of solo travelers who seem to navigate toward one another like magnets. It's truly an international web of young people all taking time off their normal lives to cut loose and just travel, letting the road take them wherever it will. I had no idea of this hidden world, but it's marvelous! Information of the best and cheapest of everything is traded names are thrown about like fire, and no one has to fear of being alone if they don't want to. At the back of my mind I knew there must be other travelers, but I had no idea how extensive this network actually was. While we from yesterday have all gone our separate ways I now rest comforted that I need not worry to hard for their is a great world out there and if used properly you can flourish and prosper from it.