It’s happened. I have finally started taking steps towards accomplishing one of my biggest dreams in life. To be a dirtbag. dirtbag darling, that is. This story starts with a friend of mine, Tavin, who totally gets the dirtbag dream. He currently lives in his car in Leavenworth and is probably one of the coolest humans […]
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Saying yes to everything the universe had to send my way was one of the best mentalities I could have adopted while traveling. Yes took me to beautiful beaches, yes took me to Bocas del Toro and then to Colombia, yes made me new friends, took me mountain biking, rafting, dancing, and yes gave […]
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Detachment From People and Things (In a good way) Relying on things or anybody else to make me feel some way was a guaranteed letdown. So many things went missing, or there simply wasn’t room for them in my backpack so I gave them away. The first time I purged a pile of stuff […]
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This is one of those things that I think is on just about everyone’s bucket list. Skydiving. And it was on mine since I was a kid. Though this photo is from 2008, the impact of how alive I felt jumping out of a plane has stuck with me ever since. I have also gone […]
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Here is my bucket list, some are tangible, some are changing my ways of thinking, but all of these things create a happy life well lived. I created my first draft of this when I was 18, then re-did it when I was 20, revamped it again at age 23, and grew it a bit […]
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I had the opportunity to go to Leavenworth this past weekend with some of my more experienced friends. Although it felt a little intimidating to go with people who are way better at climbing than I am, I had been asking for months to go on a climbing trip with them, and was not going […]
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