Adventures…

I have not posted anything in a while, which is usually the case, so no surprise there. But since I last wrote I have explored half the country and have had many new thoughts.

About a month ago my brother and two friends from back home (Van Buren) took off on a journey that I will never forget. We drove from Arkansas, to Denver, to Yellowstone National Park, through the vast nothingness of Montana and Wyoming which is really pretty for there being nothing there. We then made stops in Seattle, Portland, through the Redwoods to San Fransico and finally through Las Vegas, I mean it was on our way back so we had to right.

Some highlights…. In Denver we stopped at this place for breakfast called, The Delectable Egg it was amazing, had the most delicious breakfast burrito ever. In Yellowstone there were so many highlights, the gysers, Old Faithful, amazing canyons and waterfalls, animals everywhere just amazing. But what is even more amazing is that in our hotel room, we only had a bath tub, no shower, very strange for a group of 4 dudes. I think the last time I took a bath before this was when it was still ok for Mom to wash you, haha, maybe a bit much but oh well. Then we went on to our next big stop in Seattle, great city, rained of course. But it was definately my favorite city we stopped in. It was big, but still everyone I came across seemed really chill. There was just a layed back feel to the place. It was the only place we stopped that I think I could see myself living in.

We then drove down the to Portland where we stopped at a little doughnut shop called VooDoo doughnuts(www.voodoodoughnut.com), freakin’ amazing, the highlight of the city for me. I also got to see a cousin and aunt that I hadnt seen in 16 years! Crazy.

We continued down the coast, though the Redwoods (it was dark though, so I seen no ocean, boo. it was the only thing i wish we could have planned out better) they are really tall, and creepy looking at night. We then stopped in San Fransisco where we hung out with uncle Joey and Jesse, the rest of the gang couldn’t make it. But in real life we just visited the pier had some great lunch, seen some sea lions, which dont even get close to resembling real lions? We also came across some really cool drug deals!! So that was also awesome.

Then we began our trek back to Arkansas, on our way back we stopped in Vegas, it was just really really hot and warped all the vinyls we bought along the way.

It was a experience that I will never forget! Seen some things that most people only plan on or wish that they could. It was an adventure and journey, which is what life should be. One of the reasons I wanted to do this was just because of that reason. I dont want to say what if to anything in life. To me this was a way of practicing living out adventure, doing something that was in my heart to do and actually doing in and not just talking about it. I need that, that is not something that is natural to my personality. I just needed a way to practically do to practice doing what you say, and this was it. Now I want this to translate spiritually, I dont want to just have ideas and dreams of things that I want to see and do and just let them go to waste. I want to live them out. There are so many things I want to do but dont. But that is something I am about to get into in a separate post. Im sure this is already too long and I commend you if you have read this far. I recommend everyone do something of this nature, it was great to see the country and how different and how much of the same we all are 2000 miles away in the same country.