For whoever wants
to save their life will
lose it... Luke 9:24
November 2013... It was time to honor a decision made many
years earlier... The peace I had made with a career I hated more than 10 years earlier
had been stolen by chaos and drama... Chaos and drama I had opened my door and
let in because I had taken my eyes off the prize... Now more than 2000 miles
from that place of peace on the lake in NY...
Already rid of the people who lived for the chaos and drama
which had stolen it... It was time to lose the chaos and drama they had left
behind...
It was finally time to lose once and for all my life with a
health robbing career and its death sentence schedule...
It was time to save my life...
It was time to lose my mind and save my soul...
It was time to chase my dream again... A dream I thought I
wanted... A dream I had always had... A dream I had started to chase more than
10 years earlier... A dream that had helped make my peace with the career I
hated... A dream that had been stolen with the peace it helped bring...
But a dream I could not chase in good conscience while
leaving my three boys behind... Loading them into my RV in August of 2014 and
heading to the southern California coast where we’d try to chase it together
was difficult... But looking back it was the start of finding something even
better...
I won’t rehash the difficulties we faced... I’ll only say
thank you to those who helped us through them...
Heading north again the summer of 2015 and spending two
months alone with my boys in the mountains I began to find something far better
than even the dream I had wanted since high school... I began to find my
soul...
Now more than two years later... My soul and my peace has
been found again... Peace far better than the peace I lost on the lake in NY...
Found on the beaches, mountains, deserts and rivers of California, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and
finally New Mexico...
The boys with me for most of those travels are gone now...
Gone but never forgotten... They’ll always be missed... They’ll always be
loved...
It’s time to close another chapter... I’ve been to,
traveled through, worked and lived in 48 of the 50 states... In less than 2
months I will add another to the list... The RV which has been my home almost
exclusively since August of 2014 will be retired the end of April... While
still sound enough to be parked and lived in... It needs significant work to
keep it safely logging miles on the road...
It will be donated to Fiddler’s Green... A non-profit community
in Tularosa, NM providing off the grid housing to homeless US Veteran’s... They
are doing a great work and please if anyone would be interested in helping
their cause contact me for more information...
Oklahoma... The 49th of the 50 states I have been
to, traveled through, worked and lived in will become the new home base... But
the adventures will not end...
In many ways, different ones have only just
begun...
A newer RV will soon replace this one... The drama and chaos lost...
My mind clear... My soul found... New travels and adventures await and best of
all... I am ready and happy to say I won’t be taking them alone...
Stay tuned faithful readers... New adventures await...
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