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Settling In
When traveling in an RV the main idea is that we go to all these places and do all these things that we feel inspired to do. But after three months of traveling, I am spending the last month just staying in one place, well mostly!
After my San Juan Island biking adventure I went to visit family for nearly two weeks and then back to the RV park near Bellingham that I loved so much. However I stopped off at friends house for a couple days first and they invited me to park on their property rather than the RV park. I decided to go back to the RV park for my work week and do another couple biking ventures in the Whatcom County countryside before settling in with friends who are walking distance to the beach. I’ve spent so much time alone on this journey and have really enjoyed the solitude but felt it would be nice to share the journey for a while.
So rather than being “on the road” I will continue to enjoy Whatcom County and all it has to offer. I consider this area to be my second home in so many ways and there is so much beauty and awe here.
When people ask me “where do you live,” I tell them that my main home is in Arizona and my second home is a camper. That has been so true and I love having my second home. No matter where I am, I am home!
What I am loving now is that it is harvest time for so many beautiful fruits and veggies. The farmers markets are loaded with colorful baskets of strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, huge heads of kale and romaine as well as many other veggies. For all who know me, I am a foodie, for sure. My fridge is always stocked and I always cook at home.
One of my RV neighbors was telling me that there wasn’t much in the way of good food out here in the County where we are parked and I couldn’t really relate because Safeway had enough organics to keep me going in between my stops at the Coop and farmers market. When I was at the Farmers Market with my friends we decided to eat at one of the booths that offered Indian food. As I sat with my big plate of Vegetable Curry, I said “you know this is the first time I have eaten out all summer.”
We are nearing the end of August and Fall will soon be arriving here in the Northwest. I notice the temperatures are starting to fall and the nights are colder. But the days are still warm and beautiful. There has been some drizzly days that encourage staying indoors, curled up with a journal or a book, and a nice cup of tea, and then there are those bright, warm days that send me outdoors to the beach or on a bike ride. The blackberries are in bloom and the scent always draws me in. I have yet to pick berries for later. I just pick and eat.
As I settle in, enjoying the end of summer in the Pacific Northwest, I am grateful for the abundance, for the bounty of all that is offered. With all the crazy going on in the world right now, I retreat to the simple life and learn to live in gratitude for what is good and beautiful! I have no control of the insanity “out there” in the world, but I do have control over my own inner life and know that being here, now is the only way to truly live. I will let the past fall away and the future unfold as it will! For now, I am going on a bike ride….
