Today I graduated United States Gypsy University.

I was promoted to Executive Consultant of the North American branch of Transients, Inc..

I was awarded a gold ribbon at the Well-Traveled Yankee Competition.

I was upgraded to first class on Domestic Airlines (and let me tell you; the extra-wide seats and the glares on every economy class passengers' one-bag-o-peanuts face as they boarded last, was worth every piece of lost luggage in the past six years and even that one strip search in Detroit).

Because as of tonite I have fulfilled a vagabond destiny. At 9:28pm EST, Wednesday June 23rd 2005, while performing with the Mark Goodman Tap Company in Portsmouth New Hampshire, I walked across the Memorial Bridge and set foot in Kittery Maine, making it official: I am an Expert Nomad of all 50 United States. I feel like someone should throw me a party.

Or send me a handmade sympathy card. After all - what has a gypsy chick got to look forward to now? New Mexico - performed there. Wisconsin - backpacked it. Montana - roadtripped through (and through and through). Guess I'll have to call up my friends at the Coven of International Migratory Spiritualists. Perhaps it's time to leave footprints around the world.

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