About a year after finishing college, Jenna Clark finally decided to leave home to begin a new chapter of her life in Florida. Her move was filled with surprises, and here’s what the excited explorer had to say.

She moved to Orlando and deliberately chose a place close to Disney World because she was a regular visitor with an annual pass. Since relocating, she has been discovering new things about the state, but some surprising things caught her off guard initially.

Buc-ee’s was huge and even had its own brand of beef jerky. It was the first place she’d ever been to that made beef jerky. She was intrigued by the different kinds available for sampling or purchase.

“I often see them running across the sidewalks and somehow making their way onto my office window,” she said. She also saw an armadillo for the first time when she checked in at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge to wait out a hurricane.

Concerning distance, the woman who had lived her life walking to her destinations was now shocked at how far she had to commute to places. “I’m also very grateful to work from home because it would be very expensive to commute to and from work every day as I don’t drive and rely mainly on Lyft and Uber,” she concluded.