Adventures of Jacob Drake

  Can the scientific method be applied to travel? If so, is it an exact or inexact science? If it can be measured in such terms, why even choose to do so? These are all questions that flowed through my head when I tried to create what I have deemed travel experiments or weekend (maybe later on week) trips meant to simulate the conditions I will experience on the road and how I would react if I ran out of money. As a traveler there are three major things to figure out transportation, accommodation, and other costs that include food, water, and attractions. When it came to my first one of these trips or “experiments” in St. Louis, Missouri many questions flowed through my head. First was such an experiment even possible? What would happen to me on the street (especially in what many people have deemed a dangerous city to be in)? and how would other people, mainly the strangers I ran into on the streets react to my endeavor? This first travel experiment would prove to be above all thi...

Being Called To Blog           Have you ever felt like you were called to do something? Has there ever been a tugging at your heart for a life of adventure and excitement outside of your normal everyday sphere? Well when I was a senior in high school, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. That was until I experienced a revelation that has forever changed me, one I made for myself not because others told me to do it and one that will create the adventure of a life time. This blog is a reflection of that decision I made and a ticket to the wild ride that is ahead. For the reader it will be an insight into my life but for me it will be getting to share my passion and a story that will forever change me and my perspective of the world. You see I thought I was in chains stuck having to do what society and others told me I had to do but as you’ll read that was never the case and when I learned that fact I flew to a higher and more fulfilled l...