The adventure begins... or continues!

Well, somehow, amazingly, probably through the sheer force of chaos, things seem to have come together in time for my departure to Bangkok tonight!  This morning, I submitted my CaRMS applications for family medicine residency next year (location to be determined), said goodbyes to relatives and friends, and even made it out for a run in the beautiful Edmonton rivervalley.  The colors are incredible right now, leaves fallen and falling all around, and the smells... I breathed in as deeply as I could, trying to take in as much of this beauty as possible, so that maybe some will come with me on my travels around the world.
It's times like this that I wonder why I'm leaving the places and people that I love and the relationships that ground me, and planting myself in yet another foreign context.  I've come up with no answers yet, but there's some whisperings of adventure, growth, exploration.  It's like that fish, being pulled out of water, that suddenly realizes "holy moly, I'm a fish!  and that's water!" - sometimes it's when I'm most out of my element, that I find the most clarity.
So, I"m off!  Love to you all.