You have to begin somewhere.....

October 20, 2011

I am new to this. The trick for me, is to write as if no one is reading. Then, when I am more comfortable, I can invite people in to share my adventure. 

This is not only about my adventures away from home, this is about my ADVENTURE. My life. How it is changing and what direction it may take me.

This has, for the last 2 years, been the "month before the storm"

In 2009, it was a great month, traveling with my honey, visiting my Dad in Napa,visiting friends in California, celebrating my 51st birthday. I spent it with Jay and my dad in Napa. I got home, went to Kentucky, and then the unbelievable happened. Unexpected, out of the blue, chaos and death. Changed my life forever.

In 2010, I struggled to have some form of normalcy. (What is that? Who were the normal people that put THAT bar in place???) Mid October I went to visit my dad, we had our first real talk about his declining health and how that would effect both of us.Nothing we thought we had to address right away, just good to talk about before we had to. For my 52nd birthday, Jacob, my sponsees and my homies came over and we cleaned house. Most of it outside, and it was the perfect day. They helped me clean what I had watched, literally, go to seed. Then I went to Texas. The Giants won the World Series! A year to the day Jay went into the hospital, my dad called and asked me to come to LA.

Here it is 2011. 

Yesterday, I bought a one way ticket from Oahu to Bangkok. It will be followed by either a round trip ticket Bangkok to Kathmandu, or a multi-trip ticket, Bangkok-Kathmandu-Bangladesh-Bangkok. I am going on a wild adventure. More on that as it comes, right now, I have a ticket....

I leave tomorrow for LA. Just a visit, short, with a party. I hope to learn how to post photos, and well, 

you have to begin somewhere.....