What I've learned is that you can't plan out everything that happens in your life. We worry too much about mystery and try to spend our lives figuring out the unknown without remembering to take in the beauty that's right in front of us. What ever happens is meant to happen, regardless of anything you do to try and fight fate. I spent my summer in NY, waking up and having a full day of exploring a city that was completely unknown to me. I remember once walking down into a subway station with my headphones on, and got on a train that was headed uptown, opposite of where I was going. I didn't attempt to get off, but simply leaned back and let the train take me wherever, and it was the most at peace I've felt with myself in months. No service on my phone, I just observed those in a hurry to complete the next task on their lists, without a worry in the world about what my next steps were. Spending my days not knowing what was going to happen next in my life and being frightened yet excited is something that everyone should experience, and something people sadly forget to. We can't be so afraid to experience the unknown, something we have absolutely no clue about, and to just walk around aimlessly without a plan.
I like that the picture you used for this particular blog post is a picture of New York that is familiar yet at the same time unfamiliar. If you didn't look too closely you might not realize that this was New York in the picture which fits well with the theme of the post itself about unfamiliarity. The fact that you spoke about how you isolated yourself from the world when you went into unfamiliar territory also was very well thought out. By pointing out that you weren't using your cell phone because of lack of service served to place the reader more fully into the feeling of being some place unfamiliar and possibly scary. You were cut off, you were going in the opposite direction you needed to be, definitely a scary moment. But the end is very good because you use that fear to make a point about life in general, that fear can not be allowed to overwhelm our sense of adventure or we will never discover anything new or see the world for what it is instead of what we in our repetitive schedules and routines make it into. The title of the post is good, though perhaps a bit too literal, I would perhaps shorten it to just "Walk Aimlessly" but that is just me. I have a tendency to over share in things so I have since developed a love for short simple statements. I would have liked to see you play a bit more with the font choices, maybe some different colors to highlight key points or some simply bolding, underling, or italicizing. The font is kind of plain and not very interesting, it would have been good to find a font that was a little crazy (unfamiliar) or even to have changed fonts a few times within the post to give it a strange and unfamiliar feeling and throw the readers into that state of mind more fully.
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