Bon Voyage!

Get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down…I’m gonna clear my
head, I’m gonna drink that sun…I’m gonna love you good and strong
while our love is good and young.
by Indigo Girls
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many
of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome,
charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in
one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
by Mark Twain

So this is my last blog before I start my travels. Come this Thursday, I will be out of here for 43 days straight. This is always my very most favorite time in life; throwing a few things in a pack and heading out into the world. I always feel like I am at my best when I am traveling. For some reason, that weird ambitious feeling that sticks in my gut and never allows me to feel successful no matter how far I get is completely gone. I can see now that that feeling is caused by me, and me alone, but for some reason it seems easier to access when I am out of the country.

My goal in my recent work on myself is to truly feel that way all the time, regardless of my place and external state. I know it’s possible because its not like anything from the outside is reaching in and making me do something. I am the only one who can do that. I am just really starting to recognize that truth.

There is something so fantastic about seeing brand new places and meeting brand new people. It’s so true what Mark Twain said about the need for a broader world view. It’s so easy for me to get caught on my hamster wheel, forgetting the bigger picture and the whole rest of the world. I always feel like I have been completely rehydrated from the well of life when I step off the plane from my weeks of travels and rejoin the day to day steps of my life.

I will check in as often as I find a Internet cafe, and I’ll send pictures as I take them.

My first stop is London, to shake hands with some of my beautiful British fans! Yay!

Ciao for now and bon voyage!

Allison

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  • joey

    Have Fun!!!

  • http://www.allisonmack.com Sean_E

    Nothing is as good as taking a break, the need to refresh oneself is quite a good feeling. Enjoy your travels, and as long as you have fun, nothing else matters.

    Sean.

  • Amanda

    Hi Allison,
    Have a wonderful and safe trip!!

  • http://www.allisonmack.com Maude

    Have a nice Trip !

    Your so Lucky London is one of the place i want to visit the most…

    So enjoy it for me aswell…

    XxX Cant wait to see your pictures

    Maudeline

  • Julie

    have a safe journey and hope you’ll enjoy your well deserve break..dont forget to share the pictures of places you have been. im gonna miss you!!! take care always!!!

  • jamali

    hope u have a great time in london….

  • gégé

    bonjour,
    have a nice trip and enjoy everything you’ll see!

  • Claython

    Hello Allison, I am Brazilian and very fâ of its work, I do not lose no episode of Smallville, I find you pretty, an excellent actress, want that it knows that it has many adimiradores here in Brazil. Congratulations!
    Kisses
    Claython

  • http://www.flogao.com.br/franesys Franesys

    you are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! Adore you..and Chloe too….but i don´t speak inglish…..so……….I LOVE SMALVILLE..!!
    Franesys….ITABUNA-BAHIA..BRASIL

  • http://www.myspace.com/marlaborders Meredith

    Have a glorious adventure, Allison! FYI, I saw you at ACL Fest in Austin, Texas last September, and I just wanted to let you know that the line-up was released today for this year’s fest! It looks amazing, so you should definitely get your wristband before they sell out!

  • VersesBatman

    Just a friendly word of advice.

    Put on sunscreen. You will be glad you did when you get older and your skin is soft instead of leathery.

    Take care!

  • http://www.allisonmack.com jesslyn452

    what your going on vacation???? how exciting!!! i wish i could be there too. you deserve it though and i’m gonna miss these blogs. well take care and keep in touch!!

  • Olivia

    Have fun on your travels!

    I, like you, know what it’s like to get into the routine of things. We get so set in our ways that we forget to breathe. The fresh air that’s out in the world will do you a world of good.

    P.s. just finished watching tonight’s episode of Smallville, “Prototype.” It was AMAZING!

  • http://www.allisonmack.com tbullington26

    allison have a wonderful and relaxing trip.

  • Dan Ross

    I just read online that one of the four major characters (clark, lana, lex, and chloe) will die in the season finale. Given the Superman story, we know that Lex and Clark can not die. This means it’s either bye bye Lana or Chloe. I’m praying that they get rid of Lana b/c her character isn’t nearly as likable as yours, but I have this horrible feeling that the Universe hates me, so your character will be killed off.

    If this is true, I just want to say that I have loved watching you on Smallville and I hope to see you in future career endeavors on the small and/or big screen. I think you’re a talented, beautiful woman who has really given life to a character who I initially thought was very weak and expendable when Smallville began.

    I really hope that Allison Mack actually reads these postings, but if not at least some of you Smallville fans who hadn’t caught wind of the leaked death of one of the leading roles will read this and be prepared to say goodbye to Chloe Sullivan and thank Allison for her great work we’ve enjoyed the past six years.

    THANK YOU ALLISON!!!

  • http://....... samuel

    what to speak of you that makes the entire world to get passionate for you… I am so plus one of the Brazilians who adore you… he comes to know this land that loves you. .I wait that you answers me. .ou when you to want comes in the italia you where and loved tbm. .kiss. I adore you

  • http://www.allisonmack.com Yasha1001

    Hmm.. So did I miss something somewhere? Didn’t catch why you
    were traveling the globe? Is this tv show related or purely pleasure? Anyway of course you are one lucky girl! There are so many beautiful people and things to see and few of us will ever get the privlidge! Have fun, girl… You are such a bright and creative person and I am a huge fan – I am sure we would be great friends… hee hee in another life… And of course I envy all the kisses you give Tom… geeze but I wonder how his poor wifey must feel.Poor chick – she has to share all that gorgeousness… Bye for now Allison – YASHA

  • http://www.allisonmack.com Jim51

    To travel is a splendid thing, to meet other people, other cultures, universe, it is magical

    Jim51

  • Dyan

    Have fun, Allison. Wish I was in Britain to meet you.:) Anyway, have a safe trip. Ciao!:)

  • Mark C. Potts

    Allison, have an awesome trip! I’m so impressed with your thinking and style. You keep going outside of the box. Instead of Star Trekkin, you’re Trekkin in the Spirtual, Mental, and Physical realms that we enjoy. That drive you have, don’t ever let it die.
    As I like to tell my campers, even if we aren’t moving, we’re still on a journey. This planet is turning every day, we rotate around the Sun in our Solar System, the Solar System moves about in our Galaxy, and our Galaxy moves around the Universe. We’re never still. Stillness is non-existence.
    Enjoy your trip, each day is new and unfoldng before us.
    Peace always,
    Mark

  • http://donthavemeone RogerTheCartGoon

    Hey there, Allison! This here’s Roger The Cart Goon! I done used ta write ya alla time way way back in the summer o’ ought 3, ‘member? Y’all was hawkin’ them l’il yellow cameras? Well, I gotta say y’all has come a long ways since then. Now, when I watch Smallville, if’n I kin git th’ tin foil on them rabbit ears jes’ right, I allus watch fer Chloe and not fer no one else!

    Y’all know what? You be THE mos’ authentic cryer I ever done seen in moom pitchers. Know hows I kin tell? Well, there be these things called “micro-expressions” that people do when they’s fer-real happy or fer-real sad or some such. I cain’t tell y’all ‘zackly what it be that ya do when ya cry on accounta then you’d be thinkin’ bout it and y’all might try to copy yerself which would interfere with yer dramatic instrument an’ process. Lemme jes’ say, when that Chloe cries, it done be like a arrow through muh heart. (I knows ’bout thet micro-expression stuff on accounta tha’s how the sheriffs done busted muh cousin Jessup fer boostin’ a hay baler.)

    Well now, y’all be careful over there in China, Allison. Our economic relations be tense at th’ moment, plus they eat cats over there (take yerself a stroll through the market if’n y’all think I’m joshin’). Oh, an’ bring lotsa M&Ms! Them things be like cigarettes in prison when y’all’re in China. The Chinese don’t git ‘em over there an’ they love ‘em.

    An’ y’all said “completely rehydrated from the well of life.” That be jes’ beautiful, Allison. Now, y’all be sure ‘n’ keep yerself a journal. An’ I ‘spect a FULL report on th’ M&M shortage over there when y’all git back!

    Take care, an’ y’all drink deep from that well. That ain’t th’ normal advice I’d done give ta someone over here in th’ USA where mosta th’ wells have a LOT more’n water in ‘em. But y’all know what I means.

    Now you have yerself th’ time o’ yer life!

    Roger The Cart Goon

  • http://none Sam Gosford

    I’m reading your blog in reverse order but it already sounds as though you’re on a spiritual journey, an intense one.

    Lucky you! Lucky you, not only to have such doubts and questions, but to have what it takes to pursue the answers. You will find what you’re looking for — but you’ll know it when you see it, truly see it, so go slow in coming to conclusions. These realizations come a bit at a time — unless you’re a very fortunate (and usually male) religious figure, in which case the meaning of the universe hits you all at once in one blazing revelatory truth.

    You said “that weird ambitious feeling that sticks in my gut and never allows me to feel successful no matter how far I get is completely gone.” Fascinating! You’re one of the finest actors working, and much of your success is likely due to the driving ambition which forbids you to feel successful. That may be the formula for “great actor.”

    You don’t know how good you are — for the sort of work you do, that’s healthy. But it sounds as though you’re seeking a deeper gratification than a job well-done.

    This can be a compelling journey. I must read more of your blog…

  • Mandy

    Do you have an e-mail or an adress we could send you letters? Just curious. Love ya allison. Ciao!

  • GIrlBrasil

    oi mack!!

    aqui no brasil vocÊ é muito amada!

    todos aqui torcem por chloe sullivan….

    smallville or smallville- as aventuras do super garoto in brazil is very good!!

    i like you

    kiss

    =**

  • http://clochiarg.spaces.live.com/ Clochi

    Hi!!!!, first than nothing, excuse me for my english that is so bad :P . But I think that you can understand me, I think what i write like a native :P . Sorry xD

    I wish what you have fun in your travels ^^. Is so good going for all the world knowing places and new people from other cultures ^^. Know About the Music, traditions, customs, and so much things more of every place :) .

    You have to come to Santiago del Estero Argentina on your nexts travels xD jajajaja :P .

    You are the famous Chloe Sullivan on SmallVille, let me you to know that I’m very fan of that serie. Your character is the best, Hacker, friend of Clark and so Smart ^^. You act so good ^^.

    Well, how do you like travels and know new people and cultures, I can tell you how is for here :P .
    The most popular thing of my city is the Folklore Music, I upload a video singing a folclore song for all the people know the music of my earth :P jejeje.

    I forget :P . My name is Claudio, i have 20 years old and I’m from Santiago del Estero, Argentina. I like play the piano, the guitar and sing. I like also the computer science. And chat with people of all the world, know new places too ^^.

    I want to thanks to my girlfriend for help me to write this ^^.
    Kisses ^^

    PD: Thanks por for do this, That convert you in a amazing person. Good Luck ^^

  • seacrystal

    Have a safe trip Allison, and can’t wait to for your stories and pictures of your travels. :)

  • RENATA JULIANA O BER

    Enjoy and relax enjoy yourself.
    Have a amazing vacation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Don´t forget coments yours vacation after come back

    Bye and have a nice adventures girl !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.myspace.com/_romulo_ João Rômulo Negri

    hey Allison how are you?? Oh god so you´re gonna travel. I´ts amazing!!! \o/

    I´m not the guy who stays a lot of time traveling!!! Someday i want to talk to you and take a lot of photos with you!!! Is gonna be amazing (for me).

    I admire you so much and you don´t have an idea. Thanks for doing what you love and the way that you do. I hope you have good days until you are abroad.

    We´ll talk soon.

    Kisses and hugs

    João Rômulo Negri

  • http://www.digitaluselessness.com/ K.C.

    Allison:
    You’re such a tremendous actress and from your site and blogging I’d say a pretty neat person in general. Enjoy your trip – take some sweet pics and be sure to share. Looking forward to reading more of yer stuff! Hasta! ~ KC

  • abhishek

    hiii allison i’m ur fan from india…..from ur blogs it seems that you follow mahatma gandhi a lot.
    any chance you coming to india???

  • Sean

    Hey Allison!

    Let me first start off by saying I’m a huge fan of Smallville, and have been since the show started. I think you’re a phenomenal actress, and are extremely beautiful. I hope you have a worderful time traveling and seeing the world!

    All the Best,

    Your Loyal Fan,

    Sean

  • http://www.allisonmack.com ChloeandClarkisLOVE

    First of all i just wanted to start off by telling you im a huge fan of smallville and i HOPE TO GOD that you and clark get together!!!!! ALL my school wants you two together cause you love him and he is jelouse of you and jimmy until jimmy left sry for that, but you should BE WITH CLARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just do it for the fans!

  • Bettina

    While I won’t be able to see you (or have seen you at the time I write this?) in the UK, I’m also one of your European fans :)

    I have to admit that I don’t follow regular gossip all that much if it doesn’t hit me in the head, so I have no clue where you’ll travel to in the next month plus those few days extra. Do you have some kind of fixed travel schedule or are those rather short term decisions?

    Aside from all of that I wish you a good time away from your home and country, be happy and meet tons of new fans and those (few) others who aren’t worshipping you yet, lol

    Bettina

  • http://www.malu.fdp.com.br Malu

    I hope you have a wondeful trip. And you should visit Brazil someday. You have lots of big fans here (me, for example) and there are lots of beautiful places for you to know.
    If you want to stay here with me, you`re welcome ;)

  • Sarah P.

    I love to travel too! I hope you have a safe trip, and lots of fun. It would be cool to go to england! make sure you greet people by saying, “ello governer!” You are awesome!

  • EAG!

    heey ILOOVEYOU you are very pretty & i love your acting in smallville i dont miss it!! you rock so muchh! thank you for smallville pretty girl bye now luvya

  • Tanya

    Hey Allison,
    This is my first visit to your page. I like how personal you make it, it’s unique. I hope the start of your travels are going well. Sounds like a lot of fun. Will be interesting to hear your updates while you’re traveling, you have a nice way of updating as well as adding your personal thoughts and experiences in nearly a philosophical way.

    Well, be safe and thanks for the blogs, pics, and for being as personal as you are.

    Best wishes,
    Tanya

  • Jim Small

    Best of luck on your journey!!

  • http://www.allisonmack.com smalltown7

    Hey allison have a great trip!
    really enjoy you on smallville! Dont leave SMALLVILLE!
    just wanted to hi, and that we hope u have a great trip!
    God bless,

    smalltown 07

  • http://www.allisonmack.com stevencain

    Hey there,
    I hope your trip is going well. Are you gonna be over in the United States anytime? Luckily, I have a friend over in the UK that got me an autographed picture, thanks for that :-) . I hope you aren’t the person that dies at the end of this season of Smallville…I would cry…and I don’t cry too much. Let me know when you are gonna be at something in the US if you can. I’d like to meet you :-)

  • Stephanie

    I hope you have tons of fun on your trip ..
    I heard you sang in england, I heard it and found you absolultly amazing! .. I cant wait to see the final of smallville ..
    I saw the trailer and the Lois/Chloe scene looks great ..!

    much love,
    Stephanie

  • http://www.allisonmack.com None of your Business : – )

    Wow China!!!! the only thing about this is we won’t be getting your blog for alittle while. oh well,I know when you post a new one it’ll be awsome!!!!! So,I can’t wait to find out your super power*sits on edge of seat*.You know I’ll be tuning in on Thursday!!!!!For the season Finale!!!!!!.Have fun in China.
    † TTYL †

  • http://lightstarangel.livejournal.com Shar

    Hi Allison! Have a wonderful time on your travels around this grand world! :) I just watched a video of you singing @ Asylum — you’ve got an amazing voice and hopefully you’ll consider recording something!

    Or maybe have a very special musical episode of Smallville ;)

  • http://www.myspace.com/angylgrrl JT

    Have a safe and fun trip! Love that you chose the Indigo Girls for your quote. Those ladies are some awesome lyricists! I hope we get to see you next season on Smallville cause your character brings such a depth to the show and the dynamic relationship Chloe has with Clark is amazing to watch. She is truly a protector of his secret.

  • samuel dias

    Allison, I’m happy speak with you. I am from Brazil and I love Smallville and speciality you. I love Chloe’s profession. I’m a journalist studant. You are fantastic!!! Must be wonderful to work in Vancouver with all that people recording the series. Oh, I’m just speaking about Smallville and I still didn’t talk about your trip. You know, I hope that you will have a fascinating trip. And now I want that you never forget me. My girlfriend jealousys kristin and you, but let’s not talk about it. Don’t forget me!!!!!!!!!! Your brazilian special report, Samuel kent!!!!!!!!!!!

  • andrea

    it is past midnight here in London and i’m sitting in the dark hallway with just the light of the computer while the rest of my flatmates are snoring sound asleep. i just moved from california to London, am looking for my own place and my next adventure, but miss home terribly – more than i expected, and much sooner. strangely (and quite wonderfully), stumbling across your posts, you’ve drawn me closer to both my old home, in thought, and my new home, in embrace. all that we do constitutes an adventure, whether a few weeks or a few years or more. i don’t know why i let this fear of not finding my place cloud the beauty and imagination that brought me in the first place. thanks for reminding me about the freshness of each experience and the bounty of new people to meet. here’s to plenty of warm smiles and thoughts for you on your own trip! take care, andrea

  • http://notengo Ciro

    Allison! come to Argentina, its a beautifull country! I see smaville, its the best! i dont speak good but you can travel to my country becose its wonderfull!
    Como diriamos en español, ojala q te tengamos por aca pronto, atte Argentina!

  • Elizabeth

    I can definitly understand why so many people have the desire to travel…because it really is such a life changing and insightful experience.

    I am currently a freshman in college but I will never forget the first time I went on a trip of my own apart from my family. It was a sister-city youth exchange during the summer of my sophomore year of highschool. I stayed with a family along the Bodensee in southern Germany (which borders Germany, Switzerland, and Austria) for about three weeks. It was an absolutly amazing experience because many times when I have gone on vacation with family or friends to different places across the US it makes it so much easier to just get stuck in my own little bubble, and harder to actually indulge in the culture and come to know the people’s way of life. But having had the opportunity to stay with a family where no one speaks English, where hot guys run around the streets in pink speedos, riding my bike five miles to the local school each day and debating politics with the students, having gothic catedrals, and fairytale castles on the hilltops, and medieval cities, the Alps out your windowsill, and crystal clear lakes to swim in (near the guys with pink speedos)….let me just say…it was NIIIIIICE!!!!!!! And words cannot do it justice. I am the oldest of 7, so it isn’t often that I have opportunities like that so I was truly blessed that I was able to have such an amazing experience at such a young age. Ever since I have had an unquenchable desire to travel and explore other cultures.

    Then two summers ago, I went with a Church group to the Weltjugendtag (World Youth Day) in Koln, Germany. On the way there we stopped in Dublin, Paris, the Netherlands, and Belgium…all of these places were absolutly gorgeous (though the Eiffel tower sure does look bigger on TV) but for me the most memorable experience of the entire trip was actually walking into the gates a WWII concentration camp in former East Germany and while there actually seeing blood on the ashened rocks (the Nazi’s burned down the camps so the world would never know what they had done). I could actually feel the death there. And then when we were walking the streets of Dublin there was a homeless woman lying along the side of the road in torn clothes with a baby in her arms. And going on the subway in Paris and seeing all the drunken people on the streets with no where to go….and I know there are places in the US with just as much poverty and hardship tho I have never been there.

    Its just…impossible…to be able draw conclusions about the rest of the world and other cultures by what we learn in the classroom, without having actually seen with our own eyes. It reminds me that I still have so much more to learn about the world in which we live and that I really shouldn’t let life pass me by.

  • Colin Harper

    Where am I?, Oh yeah my house, I love you Allison

  • Corey Niles

    Who doesnt love her???

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