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Like a Rolling Stone
Heres a fact. When most people think of the term, “Rolling Stone” they think of the rock/pop culture magazine or they think of Mick Jagger sticking his tongue out and swinging his hips in tight leather pants. I’m not saying that’s not cool (it isn’t) but both the band and magazine got the term from a proverb written a long time ago. “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” A rolling stone is like a vagabond or wanderer…someone who is always on the move, unwilling to stay in one place. When I took an American Music History class in 2000 my teacher said the slaves way back in the day used the term a lot…maybe that’s true too. Either way, when you hear someone say rolling stone, you should think of someone who is constantly on the move, etc.
Like Bob Dylan sings in his song Like A Rolling Stone,
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Anyways, all the babbling to tell you that at times I feel like a rolling stone, but with a home. I guess it doesn’t completely fit the term, but I do travel a lot. Most of the time it’s awesome, and I’ve been truly blessed to see over 23 countries in the last 6 years or so, but sometimes it feels like a chore.
Today I am in Quito, Ecuador. I got here last night after a long day of traveling…more on that farther down. It’s a cool country, much like other countries in South America, except for Ecuador is at a high altitude so the weather is wonderful. It’s 75 degrees out today and very breezy…much better than in San Antonio. This afternoon I’m leaving for the coast and I’ll be there all week working. It’s like a good thing and a bad thing every time I go on these trips. It’s awesome because I get to see other countries and experience other cultures, it’s crappy because I have to work the whole time and I can’t see as much as I’d like. Don’t get me wrong when I say sometimes traveling feels like a chore. If I was able to be an actual rolling stone and just travel all over the world, (with my girl by my side of course) :) I’d love it. But most of the time I travel for work, which is only cool sometimes. This time the actual travel part kind of sucked.
It was like one of those days where nothing works out for you. I had to wake up at 4am yesterday to get on a plane that left at 7am. I was in Atlanta for six hours and then sat on a hot plane for two hours because they boarded the plane and then found out the bags were slow being processed. The guy next to me stunk, he was in a bad mood the whole time, and was coughing every two minutes. I felt like I was getting sick as the flight went on. The guy in front of me, who was a big guy, pushed his seat all the way back, and I couldn’t push my seat back because the exit row was behind me. And I was cramped up in a window seat, sweating the whole time. So…it wasn’t good.
But, at least I’m here, and I’m only here for a week.
Two more things:
See the movie The Host. It’s a Korean movie. It’s a movie about a sea creature attacking people…which sounds cheesy, but it’s not. It’s actually very funny (it’s meant to be) and very well done (it’s meant to be.) I’d recommend it.
Also,
“You’re everything that makes me happy, so when you’re gone it’s pretty crappy.”
I sent that in an email to Stephanie today…I just thought I’d share my extreme cleverness with you all. I like to entertain myself.
Peace from the Middle East…or South America.
dude, you are in Equador so enjoy every stinking moment of it before we get kicked out of the country anyways. Try to stay a couple of days in quito if you can and enjoy the scenery……not like I would of course.
Yeah, what Vargas said. Enjoy it and have fun. Take loads of pictures.
BTW I got your airport story beat. Choybalson Mongolia. It is considered fair game to punch people who are in front of you to get your bags to and from the clerk.
Oh yeah, Mick wasn’t one for the tongue out thing, that was more Gene Simmons from KISS. Mick was definately a strutter int eh leather and big lips.