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Why I’ve Been MIA Lately (Part 2)
The long story of my long absence…
Oh boy. Where do I even begin.
I’ve been struggling for several days trying to write this. It’s a long story, one that I imagine will be the topic of future articles to come as well.
As some of you know if you read part 1, I was off of Medium for a little over a week initially with a shoulder injury. However, once I started to recover I began to get back into the swing of things, traveling and writing as normal.
Little did I know that my shoulder injury was just a drop in the bucket compared to what I was about to go through.
Soon afterwards I started to experience what I believed were flu symptoms — or perhaps even just altitude sickness — during a road trip around the American Southwest. However, I tried to push through as best I could, still going hiking and exploring as much as possible.
But I felt worse and worse and my symptoms became more and more unusual. I ultimately had to cut the trip a few days short and decided to visit family in the hopes of recuperating with them. Maybe, I thought, the stress of travel was getting to me. I felt burnt out. Over the past year I’ve been to a dozen countries and more cities than I can count, and I wondered if maybe doing a multi-state road trip on top of all…
