I did it!
I began my life. Well, my life the way I'd like to live it always. The life of an adventurer.
It all began with an idea, as most great adventures do. Colorado, backpacking for about a week. Colorado has long been on the list of places I wished to actually set foot in. My family had driven through on the way to what they thought were better, more exciting places further west, but were poorly mistaken in their travel plans. I spent one of the most rewarding weeks of my life in hiking boots that I wore down to the sole and with a heavy pack on my back.
The air may be thinner out there, but it was full of something the air here in Wisconsin has been lacking lately: possibility. Each day brought new challenges, and new friends to help me face and overcome them. There were hills that I felt were impossible to climb until I reached the top. And the reward of climbing to the top of a difficult hill there was spectacular views of the mountains. Well worth any trouble.
There are so many new and exciting places to see in the time I've been given on this earth, and I feel the wanderlust to venture to soak in more and more of them!
But a few new experiences from this adventure:
-camping in a Walmart's parking lot.
-the now infamous exploding gas can.
-backpacking.
-the amazing sight of the night sky in all its wonder, with no light pollution, so clear that I could see the Milky Way.
-communicating with nature (some do so figuratively, I prefer the more literal approach:)
-being within arm's reach of a hummingbird (one of my favorite creatures!)
