Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

Every so often, I find myself in lost in a yellow wood confronted with two paths, the default/familiar versus something new/different. “Sorry that I could not travel both” haunts this decision. No one wants to miss out on life’s opportunities but we must choose and know that the other road won’t get trodden. Life is a series of trade offs.

Shortly after college while living in a cheap apartment and working in the family business, I stood before one of these crossroads. Back then, I chose the path less traveled by leaving the familiar to travel New Zealand with my future bride. I started this site back then to share and journal this adventure. The departure from familiar snowballed into a life of new experiences.

Decades have passed and not a moment goes by that I don’t dream or think about our brief time spent exploring life.

Today, life has rewarded me with a beautiful marriage, two wonderful sons and scores of great memories. The routine of modern life has nudged us down the more traveled paths. I don’t know why, but our sense of adventure has softened with age and parenthood. But that raw drive to explore and surround oneself in the unfamiliar is awakening. My boys are approaching ages of independence. Our domesticated tenure has served its purpose. I sense another intersection ahead. The path less traveled calls to me.