The last few months have changed the world as we know it. This year has been one ending and one new beginning after another, with many un-learnings, a lot of grief and the realisation that we must do better. 

With a pandemic and an awakening to systemic racism in the foreground, a couple of days ago, life as I knew it changed. It seems like a tiny thing, on a global scale. And it’s a huge change, on an individual level: a commitment to experience, explore and grow always, even (and especially) if it feels scary sometimes.

While this project has been in the works for over 2 years, I’m still in the process of realising that we did take the leap!

We traded our 1500 sqft house for a 12 ft camper.

We swapped our quarter acre lot for the horizon. 

We don’t have a time frame or an itinerary for this adventure.

We just want to take each day as it comes, slow down and live light for a bit, while we drive around the US and visit friends and National Parks! 

To be fully honest, there were (many) times over the last 3 years on the Oregon Coast when I wanted nothing more than to get away from the rain, the cold and the loneliness that comes with leaving a life that I loved behind. 

And when the time came to say goodbye to the community I found here, despite the challenges of the last couple of years, I realised how much I was going to miss it.

It’s day 5 on the road and I’m learning (once again) to slow down enough to feel all of the feelings – the easy ones, the hard ones, the ones I’m not so proud of. To let them pass through me and let them out. 

Often reluctantly, sometimes consciously.

And with 2 humans, a cat and a dog in 96 sqft, there’s already been tears, frustration, laughter alongside the joy of exploring new places together!

I’m reminding myself to practice the yoga that I teach as I adjust to this new lifestyle. 

The yoga of uncertainty, of change, of acceptance.