Originally Posted By: RoguePhotonic
The way my life is right now I could get up from this computer and walk out the door with nothing but the clothes on my back and never return or see anyone again and I wouldn't feel like I left anything behind.

Rogue,
you have put a lot of thought into your journey, so here are a some mountain literature quotes to assist you. Harvey


Work and job
it takes more endurance to work in a city than it does to climb a mountain.Peter Boardman, The Shining Mountain page 12

Suburban trains were disgorging their morning shoals of business men...Six months hence...they would still be following the same routine while we, freed for a season from this narrow horizon, would recapture the art of real living, which is adventure. Unwillingly would I have exchanged my lot with any, even the most prosperous of them.
Scott Russell, Mountain Prospect, page 156

This last week we've transcended the strange, infuriating tyranny of our so-called civilized lives. Here we've found true life again, rediscovered what makes us whole. We knew it the moment we started walking. Felt it grow stronger each day. Felt the world pour into us until now we're as big as it is. This is real. This is where we belong.
John Harlin, "Sea to Summit" in Ascent, page 127

Pleasure vs pain on the trail and off
The largest part of so-called discomfort is not discomfort at all except when measured against a different standard and a different environment. Frank Smythe, The Valley of Flowers, page 698

Route
Neither the crow nor the ruler laid upon a map is likely to tell you the least toilsome way of getting from one point to another in proper mountain country.
RLG Irving, Ten Great Mountains, page 5

Introspective
I had yet to understand the truth that it is better to travel than to arrive. John Hunt, Life is Meeting, page 46

DO NOT GIVE UP
Expeditions are born in the minds of men and more of them die there than are defeated by avalanches, bad weather, and misfortune combined. Nicholas Clinch, A Walk in the Sky page 15.