Lost and profound To think, there was once a time when man knew where he stood in accordance to the positions of the stars, our original navigation system. Stars at distances so far into the past that we only perceive a twinkle frozen in time from its ghost. Man has attributed the lifetime of these ghosts to stories written in the night sky webbed together in constellations forming maps across our world. Although this knowledge was lost to the common man, luckily for us our pioneering aptitude remained expressive in our DNA. And in exchange we’ve gained technological wizardry that would have mystified the ancients. Fast forward from the days of the old to April 2016 I decided to take a leap into the unknown. Following the trail of today's gps, 538 miles away from the comfort zone of my home in a small city known as Bridgeport Connecticut. Home to the best tasting pizza in the tristate and the first subway sandwich of the U.S. A place known to me a little too well. It was time for me to utilize the technological wizardry that every millennial possesses. The access to heavenly bodies of our artificial satellite system. This power rests at the cheek of any millenial’s ass that we only tend to use to order a sandwich. Where we once looked to the heavens for our way, the time has come for the heavens to gaze down upon us and guide us by the palm of our hands. With the company of two friends as rotating drivers each different backgrounds which reflected in the music selection our objective was to adopt a puppy for my girlfriend. Never having set forth past the Pennsylvania borders, beyond that point only was only residence to my imagination. With a full tank of gas and a flood invasion of caffeine for my dopamine cells to dive into we embarked embracing the unknown. Coming from the city of Bridgeport Connecticut to the country counties of Ohio felt like a venture into the past the further away from home the more things became older. I was shocked to see horses along the way running in fields of radiant green. It humbled me to experience the grace of man's trailblazing evolution side by side in time from riding horses to riding with horses rivaling the horsepower of our cars engine. It was like something from a Kanye West music video. And the people in the area looked at us as though they would have mistaken our mention of Kanye West as the direction from which we came. It was odd to say the least. Because although Ohio does have its areas that would be considered metropolitan to the standards of the south, where the gps led us was far contrary. Most of the cars looked the same and our bmw stuck out like a sore thumb. Especially having broken down on us our engine needed to cool. And this is where the unknown became just a little bit more frightening. Luckily for us each of our phones were charged and we were already a few miles within proximity of our destination. Eyes angled in every direction as far as they could see felt like a hopeless journey. We were left with no choice but to walk the rest of the way. I mean “hey” it wasn't like we were going to walk back. Being from a city but having spent much time hiking in the outskirts of its wilderness was familiar territory to me. As for my girlfriend, well lets just say that our relationship took on the role of barbie meets barbarian. With the use of my compass and my girlfriend's navigation app we measured our way to our destination. Being lost in unknown territory is where you ultimately find yourself. It was as if a fire had ignited in the primal regions of my psych logging for action. This is the high I anticipated finding in my travels “man in nature” an organic exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide the “nature in man” our bodies natural wifi. I can say the grass was a lot more green on the other side of our destination. Although the objective was to bring our new canine friend home we all ventured for our own subjective reasons. My girlfriend for her new friend, and my friend for a new memory. Mine was to find myself, which could only be attained by doing something new for the first time or in this case intentionally losing myself. There I gained clarity. We tend to fear what we don’t understand but only by stepping into unknown territory the new, becomes the known and the diminishing agent of ignorance and of our preconceived prejudices. Prior to this satellite guided trip I didn't know that I would be able to seek out and find a person I had never even met before in the rural fields of Ohio. I had seen a lot of things for the first time from crossways, to street signs to architecture designed by people who lived in a time left behind to others. I came back to Bridgeport Connecticut with a broader view of the world. The perception of your understanding is measured by the circumference of your surroundings. Expand your circumference and your understanding will follow.