My New Anthem

My apologies, I've been pretty absent lately. Between work, visting family and friends, and making sure my dogs don't get into anything lethal, blogging takes backseat. I have one week back in the states, and then I return to the UK- and back to multiple daily posts!!

In the meantime, I heard this song on the radio today, and realized it was MY song. I had to tweak the words a little bit from the original (cause I'm not from Tennessee, and I don't kiss girls), but other than that it sums me up perfectly.

Southern Comfort Zone

Brad Paisley

When your wheelhouse is the land of oranges, 

The first time you leave it can be strange, it can be shocking

Not everybody drives a truck, not everybody drinks sweet tea

Not everybody owns a gun, wears a ball cap boots and jeans

Not everybody goes to church or watches every Gator game

Not everybody knows the words to "Ring Of Fire" or "Amazing 

Grace"

Oh, Dixie Land, 

I hope you understand

When I miss my Florida Home

And I've been away way too long

I can't see this world unless I go

Outside my Southern Comfort Zone

I have walked the streets of Rome, I have been to foreign lands

I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand

I have seen the Eiffel Tower lit up on a Paris night

I have kissed a British boy underneath the Northern Lights

I know what it's like to be the only one like me, 

To take a good hard look around and be in the minority

And I Miss my Florida home

But I can see the ways that I've grown

I can't see this world unless I go

Outside my Southern Comfort Zone

I miss your biscuits and your gravy

Fireflies dancing in the night

You have fed me you have saved me

Billy Graham and Martha White

I have since become a drifter

And I just can't wait to pack

Cause I know the road I leave on

It will always bring me back

I wish I was in Dixie Again

I miss my Florida Home

And I've been away way too long

I can't see this world unless I go

Outside My Southern Comfort Zone

Travelling is not easy. It takes a lot of courage to throw yourself into world and hope you know enough to survive. But it is worth it. Once you start exploring what it means to be a citizen of the Earth, you will never be the same again.