Oh-no, community!

What I am beginning to understand is that the bigger portion of this adventure is not the going around the world part, but the doing it with a thousand strangers who are necessarily going to figure out how to be a community. As you know, I have spent my life as far from the madding crowd as I could get; and now my recompense! Perhaps there are things we just need to learn in life, and so here I am in the crash course...