Well as some of you may, or may not know I am about to hit the road here pretty quickly for NYC. I want to go on the California coast along the 1 and do some camping and dip all the way down to the 40 and cut across AZ, NM, and so on, until about Tennessee, then cut back up north for a warmer route east. I don’t know how it will be on the road to update the blog as I go, but I do want to do a detailed documentation along the way for sure. I have stocked up on film, cameras, and camp gear, so hopefully I get to see some rad things to document! I have definitely been sleeping on this blog lately but I wanted to start to get the gears running again, before I head out. Here are some random photographs I have taken recently in Bellingham I wanted to put up, a place I have lived for the past 4 or so years. I do really love Bellingham, and the simplicity of life here, the local community, and all the natural beauty it has to offer, but for the past year or so I felt I need to step it up in the years to come and try new things, so thats why I’m going to give NYC a shot! the biggest possible change of lifestyle I can endure, I know. I had one of the best summers I have ever had this year up here, got to hang out with all of my good friends, and basically do anything I wanted to do everyday. definitely a summer to remember! I wanted to postpone my trip until the weather started to turn, (which its now doing) and just enjoy the summer out here, cause I have to say nothing is better than a summer in the northwest! here are a few photos I’ve shot recently

I have been away from what Id like to refer to as home now for just about a month, although it doesn’t really feel like I have an actual place to call home but a temporary place to hold my things, as strange as that sounds… and to be quite honest with you, its definitely taking its toll on me now…. If you have been repeating visitors on this blog you might not have one clue as to how and why I travel and do the things I do - like opt and just pack up and leave for months on end with no plan, and to tell you the truth I don’t either. I initially started this blog to document my life experiences to have something to look back on, and it seems like i’ve just been on this wild ride for the past 7 or so months after quitting a full time job and taking the step of supporting myself by myself perusing what makes me happy and trying to avoid the dead end alternative route of a job I hate. Maybe I’m just waiting to be in that right place at the right time, for what I don’t know… happiness I guess. maybe I’m just waiting on a miracle to happen…I don’t know. I know a lot of people who travel more than I do for sure, but for the people I know, it seems they have a nice place to call home and probably a lot securer income than me so it seems a bit more feasible. I am also aware that there are other people who have it far worse than me than I know it sounds kind of ridicules for me to even complain about this because I put it all on myself but I don’t think I’m necessarily complaining but just stating what’s been on my mind lately.. life definitely has had its ups and downs for sure… and mine definitely seems to be in the slums right now. I know I live in a very small town and have higher hopes than maybe your average joe that lives there, maybe not higher hopes, but the means to actually try and get out to do other things and seek out my potential rather than falling in the mundane small town lifestyle gets the best people… I guess that could be the reason why I travel. I don’t know, I know I’m very afraid of commitments and to tell you the truth I don’t know if its working for or against me. I don’t even know why I’m typing this, maybe its because it seems like I have a lot on my shoulders right now and this just seems like a good place to vent. I don’t have a plan set out for myself, perhaps thats the problem, I only seem to plan the next month that lies ahead at most.. plus the fact that I am broke and feel like I need to just be home, but don’t have a home… either way these past couple of weeks haven’t been the best for me for plenty of reasons, which I don’t feel like getting in to all the small details on but this is my blog and I’m going to state what is on my mind occasionally, sometimes good thoughts sometimes bad… This isn’t written with intent to have people feel sorry for me by any means, but just a means for me to get shit off my chest, I recently heard its healthy to state what’s on your mind in writing, I guess this is not a new philosophy but its new to me so I might be doing it a bit more, cause I definitely hold a lot of things in…. thanks.

Poker, I never really play it, it seems real fun but my attention span is real short when it comes to card games for some reason?.. I look at it as more of a last resort option, maybe if the power goes out or something. Maybe I haven’t quite matured to it yet which, I admit is a part of my character, (I’m a slow bloomer to some things.) or I’m just simply not a card guy…