It’s hard to talk about all the things I want to do and get excited about this life change that I’ve waited so long for, because all I can think about are the million things I need to be doing to get ready. But who wants to talk about me taking apart my book shelves? Certainly not me. Instead, lets try and get excited.
We plan to head down highway 101 when we leave, without too much planned for specifics on where we’ll stop. I am really looking forward to going back to Fort Bragg though, and was trying to find things I haven’t done there to go see. We used to vacation there when I was a child, and I always loved watching the movie Overboard and screaming “I know where that is!”. Anyhow, during my brief search, I’ve discovered that these people are absolutely bat shit for mushrooms. I’ve never seen so many mushroom themed events! See what I mean?
Sadly, we won’t be leaving until May 31st, so we will be missing out on the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Humboldt County. I saw this when I was a kid, but always wanted to see it again and show it to Robert.
While I could just go on and on listing all of the places I can’t wait to go and see, the funny thing is that I’m not really excited about particular places, or particularly strange events. I’m excited for the unexpected. For the people we’ll meet and the foods we’ll eat and everything that comes along the way. I keep having lines from “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” by Dr Seuss running through my mind, as silly as that is. I’m just ready to wander, to be doing new things, seeing new places, and conquering new mountains.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
Kid, you’ll move mountains!
So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So…get on your way!
After a very long time full of “When will we?” and “Are we really going to, ever?” and lots of other impatient questions, Robert and I are finally ready to take the plunge. In three months Robert and I are going to be taking off and becoming nomads, vagabonds, drifters!
Over the next three months, we’re going to be selling almost everything and otherwise getting our ducks into rows before we take off. We’re going to begin by (slowly!) traveling around the United States, and then….? A lot of the plan is not to have too specific of plans so that we can follow our guts and not miss opportunities, but the general plan is to live in different places. We’ll stay in places for a few months at a time, meeting great people, and seeing the world. We’ve been waiting to make this lifestyle change for quite a while now, and it’s almost unbelievable that it’s finally becoming a reality.
After a very long time of thinking through logistics and getting all of our finances and everything else straightened out, it feels amazing to finally have a departure date!
I’ve been doing a bit of paper quilling lately, and thought I’d post two of my recent projects. This first one is pretty straight forward, it’s a door hanger painted blue with a design glued on the front.
This next one is a bit…different. I’m working on doing quilling on top of photos. This is something I did on top of a photo from a magazine. I think it turned out pretty well! Next up–doing work on top of my actual photographs.We’ll see how it goes! I need to go get some photos printed to play with…
At some point I remember realizing that the more you put yourself out there, the more connections you make with life events, and the more things will just end up happening in your life that you didn’t plan on. These events can be good or bad, but the point is that the more you put yourself out there and do things, the busier your life is going to get, often in ways that are unforeseen and can often feel uncontrollable.
We moved to Portland about six months ago with the idea that we would be more active, that we would do more things. And my vague/hard to understand theory above has certainly been holding true. We haven’t had to put ourselves out there much more to make things much busier and have a lot more going on. This is mostly a great thing, but somedays it all feels uncontrollable and I feel the need to check out for a day and sleep in bed with a good book–which is probably why I’m currently reading bits and pieces from a big stack of different books. A bunch of little stolen moments in an effort to calm down my constantly stirring brain.
I’m still in a bit of awe at how much busier things got without a whole lot of effort on my part. If you go out and tell the world, ok, have at me! Apparently, it listens.
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