It is time to get out ( Read more... )

I'm on my fourth drive across the US in four years. I left my bike in Ohio, which may end up being a mistake. It's becoming hard to keep picking up and moving, and on top of that with every move I intentially and unintentionally end up losing things. Things that are important to me. While I can't imagine ruber tramping around and living out of ( Read more... )

I never really stopped writing, though I slowed down. Tremendously.

First I started a sustainability blog, which I really liked writing and learning about, but it became hard to keep up when I was living in the woods with no internet. Then I started an overdue adventure blog, which didn't last long as Alex and I decided to start a .com family/ ( Read more... )

cross the lines down shifting lights,
catch its breath a stream of life,
the tallest trees stretch to the sea,
and to the edge where shadows meet

a quiet place and nature's way
a season comes and whispers life,
still born again into golden dreams,
a hiding place beneath blue skies

cross the lines down shifting lights,
catch its breath a stream of life,
the ( Read more... )

I thrive on change, at least I think I do. I can't stand doing the same thing every day, or even going to the same part of town every day. I have to rotate the furniture/houseplants/art on the walls every month or so or I just get tired of looking at my space how it is. All this considered, I am having a sort of rough time contemplating the ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if I want to stay here (Portland? Oregon?) and maybe that is hard for me to accept and deal with.

Now where?

I'm somewhat alarmed by my lack of ...anything right now. Do I blame Portland? Am I ready to move on?

Bad: $600 cavity (yes, one cavity that manages to span 8 surface areas of teeth), car insurance/renters insurance/stickers for plates/deq test ALL due on my birthday, apparently I should have checked into unemployment a looonngg time ago though it somehow seems unfair, so bored yet a million things I know I could be doing ( Read more... )

NEW DREAM FEASIBLE PLAN:

April-June: work in Tahoe (the CA side)
July-Aug: work in Canadian Rockies
Aug-Oct: Huts in New Hampshire
Nov-?: ski bum on Hood, work at Meadows, live in Hood River

Alternative option:
Find a real job?

So. Apparently I will need to move sometime soonish either way because of one (or more) of the following reasons ( Read more... )