Post-Graduation Civilian Life Part 1: Traveling

I am writing a four-part blog on what post-graduation civilian life is like. There have been four major changes in this time: traveling, more varied activism, social differences, and professional differences. These were four pretty major things so the first one as my year of college graduation is coming up is on traveling.
I have traveled pretty much every week to either go hiking or to day trips and a few times this year for longer trips. I have to say that traveling is tiring so even though I haven't been on campus except to do blogs and bug people and sometimes events this year it is about the same amount of work overall. Some of the benefits of traveling include closer friendships, new memories, and lessons on safety. Here they are in a couple sentence form on the benefits:
1) close friendships: before last year I had never met Zech or Desta and only had minimal exposure outside of Special Olympics with Roberto. Now I can call them some of my best friends and I know for a fact that because of or maybe in spite of spending so much time together on the trips, Jason, Alexis, and Alex have stayed my best friends and I feel like the Sun Valley trip brought Camilla and I closer. The further bond of people who travel can't be touched.
2) New memories: I had last been to Yellowstone when I was 3 and some of the places I went to as part of an unofficial outdoor program I hadn't been to since I was a little child. I can't remember anything before I was 12 so frankly I don't remember anything about those places. I also have new memories from Alaska since I had never been there and was excited to be there.
3) Lessons on safety: when you are in the mountains in Yellowstone or in Alaska there are a lot more safety variables: animals, inclement weather, spacing, and being close to guns are some of the things as well as mountain protocol. These lessons on safety have primed me further to be careful in my apartment with some interesting people and keep people aware when something isn't right.
Thanks for trying to understand my thought process. These blogs are a work in progress and I am still trying to touch people by writing these. With Facebook not letting me link my blogs it is hard to get viewership however stay tuned for a blog on this and the HealthyBotty page every other week and my Special Olympics blog ProBottIantern monthly. Thanks also to my fans you are all wonderful!