Oregon
I think I'm falling in love. With the state, the place, the feeling, the idea. I haven't felt this alive in years. I love challenging myself, and Oregon seems to be full of possibilities for me to challenge my skills, my knowledge, my body with. Every time I come back from windsurfing, I just have this euphoric feeling the rest of the day. I can't stop smiling, and I can't wait to get back out there and keep trying to get to the next level, gain one more skill. +1 experience waterstarts, +1 skill turning, +1 bonus balance/strength. I want to meet the people, I want to make friends and engage with all these incredible athletes that are striving the same way I am to just enjoy something new.
It's not just that either though, the Columbia Gorge in general is just gorgeous, and the mindset of the people can be rather astounding. Being able to balance the work and play so easily, because it's all just right out your backdoor. Oh the backdoors, the new outdoors where the tourists don't travel. I want to explore and live. I want to take pictures and write about everything that I see and experience. And I want those experiences to be breathtaking, unique, each one something new. If I could find a job that I could love here and let me pass on that joy of it all to others, and also be able to play in the gorge, and go skiing, I think I would be pretty happy with life. And I could make friends and expand those boundaries to try even more new things. Those spendy things, that I just can't learn right now. Those things that require some small grain of knowledge passed on from those who have been learning for years. I want to live and learn every day, and sometimes I think Oregon could be the place where I could do something like that.
It's not just that either though, the Columbia Gorge in general is just gorgeous, and the mindset of the people can be rather astounding. Being able to balance the work and play so easily, because it's all just right out your backdoor. Oh the backdoors, the new outdoors where the tourists don't travel. I want to explore and live. I want to take pictures and write about everything that I see and experience. And I want those experiences to be breathtaking, unique, each one something new. If I could find a job that I could love here and let me pass on that joy of it all to others, and also be able to play in the gorge, and go skiing, I think I would be pretty happy with life. And I could make friends and expand those boundaries to try even more new things. Those spendy things, that I just can't learn right now. Those things that require some small grain of knowledge passed on from those who have been learning for years. I want to live and learn every day, and sometimes I think Oregon could be the place where I could do something like that.