10/08/2022
This is my first attempt to create a blog. I hope that you will stay with me as I grow and improve with this new endeavor. My nickname in college was Rocky. It had everything to do with the movie of the same name and the effort I put in to most every aspect of my life. I was always” the little engine that could!”I am convinced that everyone’s journey is unique. For myself, I have been at the pinnacle of my chosen career, To the depths that can only be created by America’s Judicial System. Due to this fall, I made the decision to give up my traditional or a conventional lifestyle. Why most people desire to live in one place and let that place become the center of their live. A place they call home, where roots can grow and allow a familiarity to develop to provide a comfortable existence. A simple need to have a home base. I get it!For me, this type of existence feels uncomfortable. Particularly, after the incidents in my life, created a distrust of of authority, government, and politicians. So as the title suggest my life is one of movement. What I thought would be a six-month experiment of traveling the country in my RV with my companion Snickers” a 7.5 lb sh*tzu, has now turned into a two year lifestyle that I hope to continue for as long as I am able to do so.My type of existence would be too uncomfortable, dangerous and lonely for most. Questions that are ask most often include those words. I answer all of the questions asked of me with the caveat, “it may not work for most, but it does work for me!”I thought my lifestyle was unique. It is not. I have met and listened to so many peoples stories about their retirement, despair, anger, and happiness. I thought a blog would be a method so as to share these experiences. I have learned that our journeys are different but there are many like-minded individuals who travel the roads from one place to another creating new experiences, never returning to their starting point. I am reminded constantly that I am not as unique as I originally thought. Since the days of Louis and Clark people have run away from something in order to explore, learn and meet up with others. I like to think that I have left the worst to fine the best.During my travels I have had the great opportunity to unite with friends and family. I have met the next generation of my family. Babies. continue to be born into the clan. I have also had the opportunity to visit college friends and to put them together. The greatest compliment that I have received was from a fellow fraternity brother who told me, “you are keeping the brotherhood alive“.So far, I have visited parts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico. I am sure before I’m done when gas prices return to affordability I will cost the southern states up to Virginia. I have lost desire to see the northeast. I might change my mind but for now I am content to follow the sun and avoid winter.I have not defined the purpose of the blog. Candidly, the purposes whenever I want it to be. I definitely want to introduce the reader to the many characters I’ve met, the overwhelming beauty of nature that can only be created by God. I am outspoken, so I’m sure there will be opinions interwoven with my subject at hand. If you found this interesting, then stay tuned. I hope to put out a blog a week. Feel free to forward.
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Snickers The tortoiseshell
