How It Started

Hi, my name is Erika, welcome to a peek into my life. I recently decided that starting a blog was a good idea, and it seems you've stumbled onto the product.

I'm starting I Wonder as I Wander as a way to help me appreciate the things in life that many take for granted and find art, beauty and excitement in the day to day.

For a brief period in my life I was a rambler. I loved to travel, and explore. I was creative and adventuresome.

I was in college.

I didn't yet understand how real adult life often leads people to settle down and get jobs and leaves very little room for the kind of escapades that I had grown accustomed to. I had every intention of living my life, one city at a time.

But then came a day when, for various reasons, I decided that I wanted stability. I no longer looked forward to applying for a new job every 8 months, trying to find a new place to live through questionable internet postings and awkward phone calls. I needed to stay. So I put down some roots. I developed routines. Things started to become familiar.

And then recently I had an existential crisis. I had become boring. Life was about waking up, going to work, coming home to cook dinner and relaxing until it was time to sleep and then start all over again. What had happened to me?

So now I'm starting an experiment. I'm going to start doing more things for me. I'm going to appreciate the process of creation - something as simple as cooking dinner, or getting dressed in the morning can be a creative and adventurous experience. I'm going to find new exciting things in this familiar city.

I don't want this blog to be a downer. I haven't been swallowed whole by the corporate “Man” just yet and I'm re-claiming my life. I still have wanderlust – and maybe I'll let it run wild every once and a while, but for now I'm going to find my adventures in simple.