I am a Nomad.

Over the last few years I have acquired the nickname of 'nomad'  {meaning someone with no permanent home, moves from place to place}.  My friends gave me the new name, not because I don't have a home {I have a lovely home and family}, but because they know I really enjoy traveling and constantly being in new places.  It is a realistic nickname, I do live a nomadic lifestyle and am always on the go - during college breaks I would barely go home, instead I would go visit New York, South Carolina, New Jersey, California or any other state I had never been to before.  Being a nomad is my way of staying in touch with my adventurous side and keeping my desire to see the world alive.
My latest nomad move was the best one I have made; as you all know I moved from Massachusetts to Italy and I couldn't be happier.  I made the choice to run towards all that the world (well Europe right now) has to offer instead of settling for a monotony office job. 

Here are a few good travel quotes that help sum up why I love traveling and why I think it is important for everyone to be a nomad at some point & go explore the world:

"We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us." - Anonymous

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a chance that goes on deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." 

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere.  That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."

"I just wanna go on more adventures.  Be around good energy. Connect with people.  Learn new things. Grow."  

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls." - Anais Nin

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.  So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R Tolkien