If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
Nearly everyone I met worked with or read about was my teacher one way or...
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians she had never eaten properly prepared meat only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.