If you follow my semi-secret Instagram, or the Twitter bits, you already know that today is travel day.  

Not travel related to @endmyopia, rather still working out the sharp left turn in life that has been the unplanned advent of the little boy.  Before all this, the general life parameters were to slowly migrate across the planet (I don’t like to travel per se, never been a fan of roundtrip tickets).  Six months here, a few weeks there, a couple years somewhere else.  For a whole lot of years I didn’t have a sudden new family from a very different culture, nor needed to worry about a quasi “public” persona, with this @endmyopia adventure.

So it was just one single Jakey, moving to a new city, new country, new continent on a whim, and staying as long as the staying was good.  Taking life, in all its very temporary glory, to all of the various limits and ragged edges.

I think all this in some way, sooner or later, will tie back to the whole myopia reversal topic, and how that lifestyle helped me to fend off the lens vultures.  

As with all things, success of sharing a message means making the topic irresistibly interesting to a wide audience.  We’ll have to wind up in interesting territory at some point, rather than just forever being nerds discussing obscure optometry clinical studies and sharing our centimeter improvements.  ;)

And you know … it’s often testing my patience, all of it.  Of course it all had to happen kind of at the same time, the big life changes.  So now I get to feeling claustrophobic about buying round trip tickets (because, baby project), and also questioning what on earth I’m doing turning my personal myopia recovery into this gods-know-what of a movement, against the mainstream narrative. 

I don’t want to talk about myopia stuff today.  Can you tell?

In a few weeks I’ll be visiting Yangon (Myanmar), with baby mama.  She wants to move back closer to home, and start a restaurant business.  Her cousin is apparently quite successful in the arena, and family being everything, she’s ready to share the secrets of success.

So that might mean me living at least part time in Myanmar, for at least a while.  I’m also trying not to overthink that one (not so tempted by Myanmar and rather fond of Thailand).  And I’ve lived in all sorts of curious places for extended periods (from Cambodia to Nepal, Budapest to Miami, Costa Rica to Bulgaria, you’ll never run out of places you want to spend a bit longer exploring).  I’ve found that there’s a happy medium for me, between old school and wild west and not being overly commercialized and franchised – vs. having decent infrastructure and nightlife and general progress.  I’m not completely convinced that Myanmar is quite there yet on that front.  

Flights are cheap and short though, so even if it’s as disconcerting for various sensibilities as one could imagine, maybe it’ll just be motivation for more exploring (and maybe resuming the 2016 World Tour, and Europe!).

Maybe by then we’ll see some better video skills and a more interesting narrative to tie myopia to fun and entertaining topics.  Maybe it’ll all lend itself to taking you along on all the weird things that happen when you don’t practice careful birth control methods, and wind up in some seriously far away places (and even not as a tourist).  

Why this post, Jakey?

Well for one, all day travel, feeling pensive about all the things.  And for another it always bears repeating that you guys make this whole @endmyopia thing happen.  It’s your feedback and stories, your ideas, your Youtube thumbs ups, your suggestions and encouragements.  I’m just the lackey that keeps the thing up and running, occasionally sharing some of the bits I figured out while getting my own eyes back.  If you weren’t there turning it all into a conversation and community, none of this would continue to evolve.  And with all that, maybe the occasional behind-the-scenes posts for your general amusement, see what happens on the other side of the screen.

So … keep making it happen.  Write those e-mails, if you’re a student share your experiences in forum posts, help us make friends with other legit health alternative wise ones.  Tell me pretty lies of how those Youtube videos are totally watchable.  ;)

Cheerios!

-Jake