Cierra picks me up at the airport from my California trip about 2PM and goes "Hey I got new drawers set up in my car with the mattress.. Trying to go to Oregon tonight or what?' Half kidding and half hoping I'd say yes probably. I laugh and ask where first.

She dropped me off at my house; I was again packing clothes into a bag to live out of for the week. Literally saying "Hi" and "Bye" to my dad at the same time as I'm walking out the door screaming I'm just going to Oregon. He knew as much as I did at that point though.

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LIFE THE PAST 2 WEEKS // CALIFORNIA

I texted Turner told him I was booking a ticket to California for the weekend and let's just see what happens. Lately my spontaneity for things have been overpowering me; something I wanted to let happen more of.

I literally threw random clothes in a bag hoping for the best the next day; wondering if I even packed enough and clothes right for California. After getting into LA and getting picked up we sort of talked about what we wanted to do for the weekend since I was going to be going to Palm Springs that next week to see my grandparents as well. Of course we said we'd play it by ear, the way things always go and the best way.

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YOSEMITE

I've been lacking on my blog lately and especially on Instagram. So here's a little touch base with myself, life and you guys.

I worked like crazy all of January finishing up my month at Desert Sun. Went to Yosemite with Turner. We had planned for me to come down for 5 days with no intention of what we were doing. Yosemite was something that was floating around and next thing you know, I was standing eye to eye with El Captain lost in the view.

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THE START

I thought for awhile.. Would anybody read this? Would anybody even want to know more about my trips? And then I stopped for a second and told myself that if I even cared about that, I was doing it all for the wrong reasons. Here you'll find the depths of my mind and remnants of my soul while I'm on the road. I hope to write about every adventure, big or small: every beautiful place I go to I want to remember forever. Even if it just a little piece of my writing from my journal. I want to look back on here and be so lost in the moment again that I can almost feel it. So I hope that I can provide you all with that feeling as well. So here's the start to something new and a journey I'm so ready for.. Again thank YOU for being apart of it.

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Life

LIKE WE WERE YOUNG AGAIN.

I’ve felt like more childlike wonder these past 2 months than I did all of my last year total. You see, I always have a young spirit and I love spontaneity, adventure, always being on the go, you name it. But with that, also comes an old soul in me; the worrying and figuring out of the future. I sometimes forget the slow down period. The period of looking around and taking in everything that this moment offers. I forget to scream to the world just how happy I am when I feel like it, to laugh out loud to the point someone could mistake it for a dying seal, to cry when I feel something. Sometimes I just forget to really live. Like how we did when we were young.

A YEAR OF LESSONS

Here we are again. End of December looking back at everything that happened throughout this whole year, that bittersweet reflection of everything you’ve done throughout the past 365 days. That sort of painful sit down of looking back knowing it’s about to be nothing but memories in the past. Knowing all those moments were literally once in a lifetime. It’s so bittersweet.

WINTERTIME BLUES.

Some days are better than others.. I’m sure if you suffer with depression or anxiety like I do, you know that sometimes you’re on top of the world and it feels like you could scream to it just how happy you are and how great life is.. Sometimes the world feels like it’s crushing down on you instead. To a point you just want it to suffocate you, to take away the uninvited thoughts and feelings. Right now it feels a lot like being suffocated.