Kristine K. Stevens Quotes

#1. You have to learn to expect the unexpected here.

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#2. I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

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#3. I finally decided to adopt guidelines rather than set a budget. If it could be done at home, skip it. If I had done it before, skip it. If the odds were that I would never have another chance to do it, do it. Scrimp on meals, transportation and accommodations.

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#4. People dream. They talk about escaping from it all. Their friends and family diligently listen and politely ignore it when the ruminations fade into oblivion. So quite a few eyebrows went up when I made this trip a reality.

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#5. What I did not realize was that I also hoped to have an epiphany, to discover a cause to devote my life to, a location where I thrived, a man to love, a life that would give me more fulfillment than the meager amount I had been living on for years.

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#6. It's weird," I said. "In one way I feel almost crushed by all the freedom, but the longer I travel, the more I feel like I'm exhaling after holding my breath for years. It's like I'm breathing normally again.

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#7. For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.

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#8. Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

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#9. There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

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#10. If the problem can be solved, there's no use worrying about it. If the problem can't be solved, there's no use worrying about it.

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#11. There were a gazillion new details to take in and so many things to learn that I did not know what to make of it all.

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#12. Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

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#13. Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the old one from my thoughts.

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