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The Lost Boys
Welcome to our blog! We will be writing about our adventures throughout Europe over the next half year (or longer). In case you read our title and thought "Lost Boys, wtf?" The Lost Boys are Peter Pan's followers who do not want to grow up. In order to stop the process of growing up and avoid responsibilities the Lost Boys escaped to Never Never Land. In our case Europe is our Never Never Land, a place to escape from growing up, from getting jobs, from becoming real people and having a shit ton of fun along the way!

Mark is the bobble head of the infamous Mark Bradford, father of the Bradford family. The Bradford family took me in under their wing while I lived in Indiana and so I thought I would take a piece of the along with me on this trip.

So if you find yourself being a grown up with responsibilities and are bored at work or at home, your escape is only a click away!

Thanks for reading!

-Jamie and Michael


Saturday, July 2, 2011

A Word From My Mother

In having a conversation with my mom via e-mail, we were discussing some of the things I have learned/talked with others on this trip.  One of the topics of conversation that always seemed to arise when I talk to other Americans, is how I ended up in Greece.  After explaining  my story, the response from the other party is always 100%, "prolong your 'real life' as long as you can, it's not all it's cracked up to be."  After expressing my concern of well what do I have to look forward to when I get back then if all these people hate their lives, my mom responded with this...

"We, long time working adults, shouldn’t be sinics about our jobs.  That is why people say to find your passion and make a living doing that.  Sometimes we have to use our passions as our hobbies and make a living in other ways.  I think it is the idea that most people don’t have the luxury or take the opportunity to do the adventure that you are on we wistfully say “real life”.  You are living your “real life” and there are so many ways to live it, not just the standard way most of us do it.  The key is to live to the fullest the life you have today and know that everything is not permanent."
Why are moms always right?!
Love you Mom.
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2 comments:

  1. CarolJuly 2, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    Michael, your Mom sounds like a wise woman. I would love to meet her for coffee sometime...wait I don't drink coffee...I crack myself up!

    Love you and miss you Mumsi

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  2. AnonymousAugust 14, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    your mum is one very on to it woman

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