Future Plans: hittin' the road!

So here's the deal:  about 2 weeks ago, I was stumbling my way around the web in my infinite boredom, when I happened acrossed a very interesting website, and some even more interesting stories.  What were they about? well, the more interesting of the ones I found was about a guy who hitchhiked from San Diego to Cape Horn, argentina, and I thought " damn, that would be sweet to do." So, I read more, and got nothing but more intrigued.  Somewhere along the way reading, something just clicked in my brain.  I really want to do that.  And I can.  The original plan for my future was to go to college of charleston, and study german and/or international studies, with the intent of being a translator.  All of this was very vague, I mean I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but just something that I could travel a lot through.  The more I thought about it, the more I realized; if I did that, at this point, I think I would feel like a rat in a cage;  studying abroad would be extremely costly, and restricted to the progams provided by the school.  Even now, in argentina, that's exactly how I feel; I want to MOVE! travel! see the world, because it's out there waiting for me, calling me!  Another thing: I'm f**king tired of constantly having to ask my parents for money, having to leach off of them, constantly ask for more funds.  I've been offered a job, but because of rotary, I can't take it.  The more  weighed the options, the clearer it became; Hitchhiking to Latinoamerica is exactly what I want to do.  Except for the cost of a pack and some supplies, it's more or less free.  I would be going by my rules, going wherever I'd like, with no schedule, no rules, seeing exactly what I want: a country as it is, not it's tourist towns and nice resorts, and the safety shelter of some organization.  I love meeting travellers and cool new people, and that's exactly what I would be doing in hitchhiking.  So here's how I'll do it:  first, either before or after my graduation party in late june, I'll try hitchhiking a 4-hour trip or so to visit a good friend in canada, a) to visit her, and b) to kind of warm up, get used to things hitchhiking.  Then, maybe sometime in July, or whenever I have the desire to get up and leave, I will, with the destination of mexico.  If I like it, then further south I'll go.  If not, then back home it is.  But, there's something that I feel is drawing me to see more of Latin America, namely Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia (exactly the countries I wouldn't be able to visit through a college study abroad program).  Argentina is nice, but the fun and excitement of being here has long since faded away.  I've lately felt restricted by the rules of rotary; I can barely travel, can't switch schools, can't work.  Need permissions for this, permission for that.  Stuck in a particularly uneventful town, which I would like very much to leave.  For all of you exchange students having the time of your life, I'm very glad for you, and I envy you.  Argentina, for me, so far, hasn't really been anything special.  I've seen what it could be, if I were living somewhere else, but I'm not, and I can't.  But, I'm not really concerned, because of the knowledge that the adventure of a lifetime awaits me.