Today I sit here in Cranford, New Jersey… it is a beautiful crisp Fall day with endless blue sky’s and a sun sitting so bright and high, as if it’s only job is to provide us with joy and smiles.
Curt and I left the Columbia River Gorge October first, driving away with all of our belongings fitting in our truck. Hitting the road to start the next chapter, we decided to stay true to what it is that we have decided is true and perfect for our life (at least in this stage) downsizing our belongings and enabling our home to fit in our truck... Sounds crazy, but it is humbling to realize that what we need in this world is so much less in than most of us will ever realize. As I understand that all stages of our life are different, the one I am in is creating a foundation for a greater appreciation going forward in my life, ultimately making me open my eyes to what are our needs and what are our wants.
For this journey we decided to take our time driving across our beautiful country. We were taking it all in, seeing countless states and distinctive country side. Making memories as we went; from spending hours on hikes in different states to spending Halloween day in South Carolina swimming in the ocean on a beautiful 80 degree day. By taking our time we also had endless minutes to discuss our next step… We are heading to South East Asia for the next three months of our life.
We are super excited for this decision that we made. We will be heading to Thailand first to spend 3 weeks, then on to Bali Indonesia to spend 2 months. During our time in Bali we will have to leave the country due to visas so we will spend a week in Kuala Lumper. I have put a link to our journey on this page if anyone is at all interested to see where we end up. We have a nice gadget that wherever we are in this amazing world we can push a button and it sends a signal tracking where we are and puts that info on the web page… ah inventions… ~~Speaking of inventions, we went to Thomas Edison’s home and factory today, what an amazing man who created for us not only the light bulb but had 1,093 U.S patents and had a factory employing over 10,000 employees to distribute and create his inventions… just a cool tid bit I learned today that inspired me so I thought I would share…. :) ~~
Curt and I are heading to New York City tomorrow to spend the weekend. We will be flying out of JFK Monday morning to head over seas… I feel blessed to have seen so many areas of this world, and am thankful to see even more. To have looked at a map of these areas forever is far different than seeing first hand that it all exists and realizing once again, as I did when stepping of the plane in Africa not long ago, that it is not very far away and this world is completely open to us. So needless to say I am surrendered to gratitude for this trip and my life that I am getting to share with my guy who I continue to fall farther and farther in love with…
Leaving you with a quote from Thomas Edison which seems to fit after spending a day looking at a glimpse of his life "I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off"
