Wendell Berry quote.

Finished a book I've had on my shelf for probably three years. It's called "Without Reservations: The travels of an independent woman," by Alice Steinbach. It's kind of like an "Eat, Pray, Love" but less about eating, praying and loving and more about the actual traveling, seeing and finding. On page 158 she quotes naturalist Wendell Berry:

"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place, there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into."

Basically sums up how I felt leading up to and arriving in NYC. And I feel much better knowing that I wasn't the only one in the world feeling this way.