Twenty One Countries In Five Years

There is an innate yearning inside each of us to discover and explore the unknown. My desire eversince I was a child was to travel to the horizon to see what's beyond the next mountain. Needless to say, in my circumstance it was very difficult to achieve. Growing up in one of the world's poorest nation, dreams and goals are always beyond reach; yet it is dreams and goals that can help one overcome the rather unfortunate circumstances that he or she was born into. What a predicament that millions of my brothers and sisters find themselves in? I wish beyond everything I could say that life is fair and that everyone should have the opportunities that I have had. I was introduced to this world in 1980 in a village across the mountains of an island that's used to be called the "Pearl of the Antilles." To this day, my village still does not have electricity, running water, etc... I can only imagine where I would be, if I was not given an opportunity at the young age of six to leave home and face the unknown. I can say that it is in those early days that my journey to the horizon began. From my first time getting into an automobile, to travel to a part of the country that had running water, electricity, people of different colors and different races, houses that were soo huge that I could got lost in. Little did I know that would be the start of an adventure that would lead me to the ends of the earth.

To be Continued. . .01/18/09