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JOE ELLIOTT that I say this is because I love to travel. Getting in a car or even riding the train home like I did freshman year always seemed to be a great adventure.

When I think about it now, I can remember the many journeys trying to get home via the SEPTA and New Jersey AMTRAK railroads. Boy, those were the great trips of trying to figure out if I was ever going to make it home. And, when I got home, if somebody was going to be there to pick me up.

Slowly, I figured out that I could get a cheaper ticket and ride a lower-budget train. Nonetheless, I have now obtained a truck that helps me get home, which has made my life a great deal easier.

It has also helped me fulfill a great dream that I have, and that is to be able to go where ever I want to at any time.

Even if it is a quick trip to WaWa or if I'm driving up to the Dixon Center to go play some squash. I think that it is the little things that we see that make me happy to be just moving around.

My mom and dad hate how I'm constantly moving around when I come home, but I think that I have told you that before. My mom always told me that I ,bave a problem trying to sit still, and that I loved to go places when I was younger.

Well, I have been able to travel a lot since my arrival on this planet. But I still think there are a lot of things I need to learn before I go on my ultimate journey, which is to travel to Nepal to go hiking.

But for now, I'll just be content with the tri-state area.

I have also had my share of travelling abroad. After my freshman year in college, I was able to ~{) to my homeland of Greece for a mqnfu.

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Let me tell you, it was probably the best three weeks of my life. I mean, when I was in high school I went to Greece with my father for a week, but that was not the same, because my dad was with me, and it was kind of hard to go and do anything illegal and bad.

But nonetheless, we had a really great time. I was able to get a real grasp of Greece from my dad's point of view.

When I went there, I met up with my brother. It was when I got there that I realized that I was basically in a foreign country all by myself.

Well, I ended up having a great time, and many new experiences.

Together, my brother and I wandered through the streets of Athens for a couple of weeks.

It was funny because I was the only one of the two of us who was able to speak the language. Well, at least a small amount of it.

While I was there, I really started to think about home. Every summer I go away and work at my summer camp in the Catskills. But I never really go far away and or go someplace new.

Sure, I have gone to some places that nobody from around here has ever gone to, like climbing inside Catskill Falls or climbing the three tallest peaks in the Catskills in less than one day.

But sometimes I feel that I could still do something bigger and better.

Luckily for me, I got this really great job working with Eastern Mountain Sports. It has given me a great opportunity to learn more about the one thing that I do best, travel.

EMS has really given me the tools and the knowledge that I needed to help fuel that desire to get off my butt and go somewhere.

I think it is extremely important for people to travel, because you will always learn something new when you go somewhere, even if you have been there a hundred times before.

My best advice is to never sit around and waste the day away.

As my headmaster once told when we were in St Martine,"J0e, Carpebiem " joe Elliottis a juniormajoringin English/communication. Heis theperspectiveseditorof Loquitur.Lookbothwaysbefore crossingthestreet.

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