"I love places that make you realize
how tiny you and your problems are"
-Anonymous
Couldn't have said it better myself. The feeling of being infinitesimally small, a blip on the map, a footnote on the page that is history. This feeling lingered in the back of my mind as we spent eight days traveling through the south of Spain last week. Architectural wonders that I've been learning about for years in my classes, breathtaking sunsets, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and picture-perfect little towns left me feeling awestruck and humbled.
A little over two months have come and gone here in Salamanca and the luster of this trip has yet to wear off. The views have become no less impressive, the trips, no less exciting and the memories, no less wonderful. Even on a not-so-good day, life really ain't so bad. I'm living my dream, halfway around the world from where I like to call home, and that in itself is enough. Counting my blessings each and every day for this place, this trip and the memories I'm making (a bit cliche, I know).
A few of my favorites from our trip down to Andalucía:
La Mezquita de Córdoba
Gardens in Córdoba
Sunset over Alcaudete
Overlook of Granada
La Alhambra de Granada
Granada from La Alhambra
Hiking the Sierra Nevadas
Fall in the Sierra Nevadas
Plaza de España, Sevilla
Cádiz
After spending upwards of a week in a place where views like these exist day in and day out, I found myself marveling at the beauty surrounding me. More than once I was rendered speechless and was pinching myself. This cannot be real life. I never want to go home. After a while I realized that the way I was feeling, the attitude I had towards life in general didn't necessarily have to stop when I came back to Salamanca, or even when I head back home to Texas. There are beautiful things that surround us every day, and sometimes we just have to pick our heads up and take a look around to notice them.
"Once in a while it really hits people
that they don't have to experience the world
in the way they have been told to."
-Alan Keightley
Couldn't have said it better myself. The feeling of being infinitesimally small, a blip on the map, a footnote on the page that is history. This feeling lingered in the back of my mind as we spent eight days traveling through the south of Spain last week. Architectural wonders that I've been learning about for years in my classes, breathtaking sunsets, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and picture-perfect little towns left me feeling awestruck and humbled.
A little over two months have come and gone here in Salamanca and the luster of this trip has yet to wear off. The views have become no less impressive, the trips, no less exciting and the memories, no less wonderful. Even on a not-so-good day, life really ain't so bad. I'm living my dream, halfway around the world from where I like to call home, and that in itself is enough. Counting my blessings each and every day for this place, this trip and the memories I'm making (a bit cliche, I know).
A few of my favorites from our trip down to Andalucía:
La Alhambra de Granada
Granada from La Alhambra
Hiking the Sierra Nevadas
After spending upwards of a week in a place where views like these exist day in and day out, I found myself marveling at the beauty surrounding me. More than once I was rendered speechless and was pinching myself. This cannot be real life. I never want to go home. After a while I realized that the way I was feeling, the attitude I had towards life in general didn't necessarily have to stop when I came back to Salamanca, or even when I head back home to Texas. There are beautiful things that surround us every day, and sometimes we just have to pick our heads up and take a look around to notice them.
"Once in a while it really hits people
that they don't have to experience the world
in the way they have been told to."
-Alan Keightley
