I just wanted to say a big thank you to all my friends and family for loving me and supporting me in going on this journey, even when you didn’t understand why I needed to go. I know a lot of you were worried about me, even people I didn’t know, and I thank you all for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers while I was gone. It has been hard for me to be back and to stay put these last six months because I definitely have some major wanderlust! There are so many places I want to revisit and many more that I have yet to see and I hope that I will get the opportunity to do a lot more traveling and mark some more places off of my list. Some things didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to or hoped they would, but I would do this all again in a heartbeat. I had the time of my life on this trip and learned so much about myself. I learned that I am a hell of a lot stronger and tougher than even I thought I was and doing things that you’re afraid of isn’t the biggest thing….. it’s knowing you can still function within that fear that will get you through. I fell in love with so many places and things on a daily basis and wouldn’t trade any of it for the world. I took a big leap of faith in myself stepping way outside my box to travel alone, but the rewards from it I will take with me always. Part of me feels like there is no little box for me anymore…….that it broke apart the second I started driving. I have a lot of things I want to do with my life and a lot of them you might not always understand, but I hope you will be there with me loving me and supporting me through it all just like you were before. I hope my blog has inspired some of you to break out of your own box and to see the world. Me and my life always have been and probably always will be, one big beautiful disaster. =)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off your bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~Mark Twain
