Travel for Real, Bitches!

It's May... usually in May, as was the trend for all years after high school except these past two, I was moving somewhere. Always. Whether it was from home to school or back home or to Maine or... and even if it wasn't exactly in May, it was during the summer. I've been in Idaho consecutively for almost two years now. Holy shit! That's crazy to me. This time last year, when it would have been finals, I was like "WHY THE FUCK AM I NOT MOVING SOMEWHERE."
Chalk it up to maturity or some other character-building shit, but I have learned how to "travel" without going anywhere. It's pretty awesome. Because when you're an Americorps VISTA, the point is that you don't have money. And when you have a job, the point is you don't have a lot of time. Both of these things are required for travel, as it turns out. Life's a bitch sometimes.
But I have learned to love my surroundings and be excited about them, continuously. Granted, it's pretty easy to do this in a place like Boise. This town, while lacking in lovely winter snow, has mountains surrounding it and is generally a clean, beautiful, fucking awesome place to live.
I think a big part of this revelation was using public transportation. Whenever I can I take the bus to work because it's free with my student ID. Gas is stupid expensive, as anyone knows (And more so in Canda! Fuck! No car for me there). This means that unlike driving, I can sit and watch the world go by out the window. On the surface, it's the same ride every day, but in reality it changes. All the time. There are different people on the bus, I may be in a different mood, the weather is different, there are different people walking around on the sidewalks...
Life is constantly changing, and I'm never bored. I travel every time I walk down the street, sit on the bus, or go for a run. There are so many places to explore wherever you go, whether it's a back alley you've never been down or a corner store or somebody's house. Even if you've been there before, there's probably something different about it than the last time you were there.
Don't get me wrong, I love the hell out of visiting new countries and new places! But when the reality of the situation is that I can't, I'd rather enjoy myself than sit around and mope. I plan to explore the fuck out of Saskatchewan and, hopefully, Canada once I'm up there. Car or no car, I'll fly... take trains... walk... bike... whatever it takes!
The world is varied and full of interesting shit. You just have to look for it!
Fuck, I'm inspiring. CAN YOU FEEL IT!