The following passages are excerpts from Sam Hinkie's personal journal leading up to and during his semester abroad in Europe while he was a junior in college.
April 6, 1998
The doldrums of my quaint life in Norman have gotten to me. I've spent the majority of my life as a Sooner, both growing up in my father's hometown of Marlow, as well as a student at the fine University of Oklahoma. This all feels a bit too rudimentary at this point though. I've always been one to zig while others zagged, to go down the less beaten pathway, to find the next question while others are still answering the first.