So much has changed in the past two weeks since my last post. Shortly after that post, I was somewhere in the mountains of Colorado, 30 or so miles down a dirt road. When I realized that I didn’t want to do this alone. I felt as if I was swimming up stream when I could be floating down it. It was in that moment I decided I was going to drop any bits of a plan I had left and drive to Southern California to road trip with two women I had never met. None of it made sense to my mind. After all, I had all these preconceived ideas of how this trip would play out, but my soul kept calling me to go. So I listened, and for the past 2 weeks I have been traveling up the California coast with two fellow powerful women. I’ve been courageous and vulnerable all at the same time. To say the Universe conspired for Jindi, Gemma and I to meet would be an understatement. Jindi was visiting from the Netherlands, with no car, hoping to find someone to go on her dream California road trip with her. Gemma was in the middle of a month life through hike in Colorado when she dropped it all because she too felt the pull. And by the end of it we all had learned so much from each other to help us continue on our paths. I am so grateful for them, for showing me the depth of my own strength and creativity. I am so much more confident in my own abilities to continue living like this, just floating down stream. It has now been over a month since I left Maryland, and since then I have driven over 5,000 miles. Through life on the bayou in Louisiana, to endless cattle ranches in Texas, desolate towns in New Mexico, along the rocky mountains and the Colorado river, through the seemingly endless desert, rock formations and canyons, through Joshua trees, and southern California wine country. Up the pacific coast, over the golden gate bridge and through the redwoods. The landscape around me has rapidly changed and so have I along with it.
I am a changed person, I cannot fit back into the places I was before, nor do I want to, and I only have a slight idea of where I am headed. But if I have learned anything recently, it is to surrender all my expectations and trust that I will always end up exactly where I am supposed to be.
The dog days are over.
-Jara
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