Two Years of Travel, Adventure and Type 2 Fun!

It's been two years. Two years since I sold my house and many of my belongings. Two years since Lily and I hit the road without much of a life plan or any idea of what to do next. It's been two years of adventures I never thought I would experience, nail-biting type two fun, moments of complete zen, and harder moments of reflection on my first 42 years on this planet. It feels like it all happened in the blink of an eye and like 10 years have passed all at the same time. It's been two of the most confounding years of my life but somehow the most enlightening as well.

Some days it feels like I've crammed an entire lifetime into these last two years. I think Lily and I spent just as many, if not more, nights sleeping in a tent under the stars as we did under the roof of a house. I got to work on a ranch in New Mexico, start a new creative business, spend a glorious month and a half in Germany with my brother and his family, flew down the fjords of Norway on a speedboat and toured a Viking ship museum, drank mulled wine with friends at a Christmas market in Copenhagen, road-tripped around the US in my Subaru Mable, went to Canada and New York on a girls' weekend and got to fulfill a lifelong dream of being a park ranger and getting to dress like Smokey The Bear every day, just to name a few.

I started this blog in January of 2024 with the intention of leaning into my creativity and being brave enough to share my thoughts, ideas, and passions with other people. I wanted to document my life so I wouldn't forget it, so I could look back years from now and see the evidence of the effort I put into building and creating a life I could be proud of. A life I could look back on and smile at, not a life filled with regret and what-ifs. As I look back over the photos and videos I've shared from the last two years, I can see that effort. I can see the growth, the courage, the hard work, and how they led to a couple of the big bucket list items I've had on my list of dreams being checked off. I can also see the missteps, the moments I panicked and made a bad decision, the times I let old unhealthy habits resurface. But I think I'm finally learning they are all part of the building and creating process too and not something to be ashamed of.

So here we are, January 31, 2025. A few more gray hairs and smile lines. A little wiser and a little more surefooted. No permanent home and still not really sure about a life plan or where to go next, but happy to wake up everyday and give life another shot. Happy to keep my creativity going and sharing it with all of you. And happy to be out in the world doing All The Outdoor Things I love. So here's to all of us creative, adventurous, terrified, exhausted, hopeful, inspiried, magical and mystical artists and alchemist out there trying to make since of all this madness. Salud!