I'm in nursing school right now and hope to graduate in about a year and a half. Once I graduate, I'll move back up to North Georgia to gain experience in one of their hospitals for a few years, and then I'm hitting the road!

I want to eventually end up traveling as a nurse so that I can get out west. Spend 2 or 3 months in Alaska, a couple in Wyoming....I can dream can't I? I want to see the Pacific Ocean, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Arizona. I hope that nursing will be my ticket.

Every little town in the U.S. has homeless, so you can't really sweep it under the rug. It's a problem but I know that some of them want it this way. I live in a really small town. I managed a small office for 15 years, we had one homeless guy sleep in our little doorway in the front on the building, and another that slept in the doorway at the back of the building. This went on the whole time I worked there. They didn't steal or cause problems at all, and in fact, it was like my own little private security company at night for my business. I would buy them an occasional lunch, or give them drinks out of our Coke machine. I felt sorry for them, but when I offered them some housing help, they both refused. One guy walked around town with a shopping cart gathering soda cans. He usually had the darn thing full, but this is what he did. The other guy would just hang around, eat lunch at the restaurant next door, and wait until 5 or 6 o'clock when they would then spread out their blankets, sleeping bags, and whatever else they could use for bedding and snuggle down for the night. They would usually be gone when I came in to work each morning, but some days, I'd have to wake them up so that I could get in the building and get them gone before the customers arrived.

Anyway, way off topic.