What can I say about Australia? To the date of this post, I’ve traveled: – 14,800 km (9,200 miles) by car – 387 km (241 miles) by foot – visited 4 of the 6 Australian States (New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria) -Driven the Pacific Coast Route from Sydney, NSW to Cairns, Queensland, Overlanders Way, Explorers Way, Red Centre Way, 3/4 of the Great Southern Way, and Great … Continue reading Australia, The Next Chapter
I posted this on Instagram: From our first day to our last day and some of the stops in between. 2 strangers who decided to merge their Aussie Adventure into one for a while and make dreams a reality. I’ll miss morning coffee and walking behind you so I can stare at your butt 😜. I leave you with this Tanguy, “May the long time … Continue reading A Letter to Tanguy
Iceland. I can tell you that I never thought about Iceland as a travel bucket list item nor have I ever given it any thought of travel. In fact, before I went to Iceland, I couldn’t tell you a lot about the dang island. So when my travel-in-shenanigans-partner-in-crime Amy asked, “Wanna go to Iceland with me?” I of course said “Yes.” Why wouldn’t I go? … Continue reading An Icelandic Journey
“I think it’s time to check the crab trap of life once more.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
We all fall into place in our lives…a place of compliance, a place of fear, a place of inspiration, etc. I’ve had this feeling of falling into a place with people I know. A place where I have realized I have outgrown some and some where I am ready to let go because the fight isn’t going to be worth the end result. As they say friends come into our lives for a reason, season, blah, blah, blah. Some wax poetic about friendships, I call it weeding my garden of friends. Some flowers become weeds. Some weeds become flowers, but sometimes, as inspired by the Jimmy Buffett lyric, “I think it’s time to check the crab trap of life once more” one needs to just check the crab trap and make sure the ones in the trap belong.
I have to be honest, the adage, “The Struggle is Real” is one of my least favorite sayings.
“The coffeeshop was out of vanilla soy milk #TheStruggleIsReal.”
As I said last Sunday, that I wasn’t going to give any more energy in living a life that chooses me. From last week’s post: I do not choose and will not let life choose: – to allow the energies of others to effect my mood, my mind, my inner peace, my personality – to allow the actions of others to effect my mood, my mind, … Continue reading Sunday Reflections: Choose Happiness
The month of February I was not living from the choice of what I wanted to do. I was living in the choice of what I should do to get through the shit I had on my list…aka sleep walking through the monotonous motions of a life I was not choosing to live but a life I was letting choose me. Continue reading Sunday Reflections
“Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless.” ~ Bruce Lee This quote by Bruce Lee has stuck with me. The moment I read it, I started this post and then lost the thought and perhaps the meaning behind the quote shortly after. Now, several months later, going through drafts of posts, I landed on this post again. Why didn’t I ever finish writing it? … Continue reading Absorb What is UsefulReject What is Useless
“Following your joy, finding what it is when you lose your track of time and trying to direct your life so you can do that as much as possible you’ll start enjoying life a lot more and you’ll find that things will fall into place. That’s the secret to happiness and finding who you are, is following your natural instincts of what makes you happy.” Continue reading FOLLOWING YOUR JOY
As 2015 kicks off, I have one target that has consumed me since January 3, 2012: Australia (and if I’m completely honest, it was even prior to that date, but that was the date of my flight back to the US from my 3 weeks in Australia.) While I was on the flight back to the US, my friend Heather said that I seemed sad, and sad was not even close to describing what I was feeling.
I felt like I was leaving home.
There are places that feel like home the moment you step foot in them and I had never understood that until the moment I landed in Key West circa 2000 Continue reading LIVING MY LIFE LIKE A SONG