The Emotions and Where They've Taken Me

Planning the trip to Tennessee was something unfimiliar to me. I was nervous as any young guy would be who is traveling a thousand miles away from home alone. I thought about how much freedom I have to be able to visit a place undiscovered to me without any hassles. The planning took some time and once the day came I was a bit nervous, dad had a tear in his eye. What dad wouldn't right? I was a boy and was becoming a man by traveling this distance alone. I never hugged my dad as long as I did this day. I wasn't if I'd make it back safe. My brother who is close just gave me a handshake. He told me good luck and have fun.

I packed the car and said some last words to dad. I got on the interstate and that's when I felt the real freedom. Something I never really felt before. I was going to try and sort things out myself.

To me the mountains seem to have answers to alot of my questions about life. It was almost as if this trip would mend some of my heart aches that I still have from my first love. Indeed the mountains did just that.

I was sitting at a lone peak in Southern Virginia where I was just watching the cloulds pass by and I was sort of talking to myself. Just asking why was I here, what do the mountains mean to me? I thought about all that I've accomplished in the last year.

I'm glad that I took the trip alone, I think it was good to let the emotions flow while driving.

The feeling of driving across the Ohio River into Kentucky playing Collin Raye's "Love, Me" it's a beautiful song that sure did help the time pass.

So in the last year my emotions have taken me to many places, Tennessee just happens to be a place where I seem to find peace in life.