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Summary

What do you need to leave behind?When I was in college, I figured my life would  come together around graduation. I'd meet a guy; we'd plan a beautiful wedding and buy a nice house-not necessarily  with a picket fence, but with whatever kind of fence we wanted. I might work, or I might not, but whatever we  decided, I would be happy.When I got out of college and my life didn't look like that, I floundered around,  trying to figure out how to get the life I had always dreamed of. I went down so many different paths for it.  Career. Travel. Friends. Relationships. But none of them were as satisfying as I hoped they would be. Like  many twenty-somethings, I tried desperately to discover the life of my dreams after college, but instead of finding  it, I just kept accumulating baggage. I had school loans, car payments, electronics  I couldn't afford, a house full of mismatched furniture I didn't love but that had become my own, hurt from broken  relationships, and unmet expectations for what life was "supposed to be" like.Just when I had given  up all hope of finding the "life I'd always dreamed about," I decided to take a trip to all fifty states...because  when you go on a trip, you can't take your baggage. What I found was that "packing light" wasn't as easy  as I thought it was.This is the story of that trip and learning to live life with less baggage.

Duration: about 6 hours (05:57:41)
Publishing date: 2013-11-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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• Biography & Memoirs
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