Prologue _Anyone who would like to join me on my journey to create myself is welcome.

Part 1: From an unfamiliar space to a new place

Creating a treasure 'place' in a new 'space'
What matters is an unwavering heart
A life where everyday life becomes a journey
Becoming Rachel in Texas
Is this Korea or America?
Become a beautiful pervert

Part 2: New Things in Everyday Life

Celebrating Halloween as an Open Traveler
A Christmas where romance lives on
A good value glass pot
UT Delhi (UTD) instead of UT Dallas (UTD)?
Have you ever smelled a skunk fart?
Ramadan makes parenting difficult
Into a scene from a movie

Part 3 In the Heart of a Texan

The Monster of Texas
The world's largest rest area
A bizarre truck roars and rises into the air.
Bright, dark, and bright again
In search of Texas cowboys
Croatia in Texas
I'm applying to be a butler
The unstoppable 'text mind'

Part 4: An Unexpected Encounter

Meet the Master's Art Gallery
The most wonderful day of my life
People living near the water
A world ruled by animals
America's Power, Energy Triple Crown
I live in Paris, Texas
Cross the border

Part 5: Expanding Your Mind

Waiting for the day when mankind will set foot on the moon again
Comprehensive Gift Set City
Walking around downtown Dallas
Please tell me the coordinates of the Texas BBQ Mecca.
The ultimate Texas symbol, the city of kings
Epilogue _I want to continue living a life of travel in the future.

Since it has come to this,
How about living like a professional traveler?

I'm not trying to become a professional traveler.
I want to live my life enjoying everyday life as a trip and traveling as everyday life.
In fact, this book contains the story of a year spent in Texas, USA, straddling the line between everyday life and travel.
While preparing for a long journey, I reached a point where I could develop a short course to help me successfully secure an apartment and settle down in the United States, but I also endured hardship and pain just to open a bank account.
But I eventually overcame it and enjoyed the perfectly ordinary routine of guiding children home from school amidst the exotic scenery of yellow school buses circling around.
I gained freedom from the burden of recycling, but I also felt guilty about the Earth.


I was fascinated by license plates from other countries and enjoyed a unique hobby of analyzing car owners. I went to American movie theaters to watch Korean movies and went to American supermarkets to buy and eat Korean ramen.
We simply decorated the house, signed up for swimming lessons, played together in the neighborhood, smelled, and co-parented, amidst novelties like Halloween, glass pots, Indians around the world, skunks, and the unthinkable Ramadan parenting.
But it was so beautiful to see the small, everyday things that filled an unfamiliar place.
It is a collection of days where life in an unfamiliar place is repetitive, and days where the repetitive routine reminds me of a scene from a movie in an exotic landscape.


I didn't become a cowboy in Texas, though.

Even if it was only for a few days, if it was my travel destination, just hearing the name makes me feel nostalgic. That is travel.
They say you get to know someone after living with them for a year. What would it be like to live in one city for a year?
It's almost like a 'Texan'.
That's what happens when you have a very rare cold snap and a very light snowfall in Texas, a state famous for its heat, and it's a very solemn initiation ceremony that brings silence.
A total solar eclipse, which can only be observed very rarely in some parts of the Earth, was scheduled.
There was Texas in that part of the country, and it just so happened to be in Texas at that time.
Because of my chance experience observing a total solar eclipse, I plan to recall Plano, Texas in my memory whenever I witness a total solar eclipse.
This is the joy of travel.

At Texas' Independence Day celebrations, he shows off his Texan blood and goes around looking for cowboy traces.
This slightly extended Texas sojourn, which included a visit to NASA that felt like a tourist attraction, a visit to the Permian Basin, the oil production hub that felt like a geography and field trip, a random visit to Tesla (their headquarters building), and a random walk from Dallas to Austin, the Texas capital, is not a travel guide that kindly provides coordinates for Texas' holy sites.
But it is true that the American annual agency is enough to transform a space on Earth into a place that contains my heart.


This book will color the times of those who are preparing to leave for Texas right now, as well as those who find it difficult to leave anywhere right now.
Rather than compressing the time given to us into colorless colors, I recommend painting it in a brilliant rainbow of colors through the life of travel.