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This is a fan-made music video that I edited using footage of me and my friend rock climbing in Bishop, CA before driving through Yosemite National Park on our way to downtown San Francisco during our summer long road trip.
Song: The Funeral Band: Band of Horses Album: Everything All the Time
Im so glad that I stuck it out!
So this is it...Im sitting at a coffee shop in Santa Barbara right now and its finally starting to dawn on me, this is pretty much my last day in California before heading home. About 2 months ago I headed out with a friend on a month long road trip from Arizona to Washington state on the quest to live freely and climb a lot of rocks. She was going to stay up there in Washington until moving to Korea and I thought it would be an interesting experience for me to try and hitchhike from there all the way down the coastline back to Arizona.
Its only been about 2 weeks since hitting the road solo but it feels so much longer! I have changed so much in such a short amount of time and Ive had countless unique experiences along the way. When I first set of on this part of the journey, Im not going to lie...I was freaking miserable. I missed my friend, I was having a hard time catching rides and I wasnt as good as I thought I would be at fighting off the loneliness and boredom. For the first 4 days I wasnt having any fun, all I could think about was making it to Eureka (the only area I really cared about seeing on the way back down) and then just buying a greyhound ticket to expedite my journey home.
I was kind of hoping that I would have a change of heart once I made it to Eureka, that maybe some time off of the road just sitting on the beach would change my outlook....but it didnt. I still wasnt having much fun, even after spending a couple of days there. I was literally seconds away from buying a bus ticket back home when I had a revelation. This part of the journey wasnt meant to be fun, thats not why I was out here...I wanted to challenge myself.... In what way?..I wasnt really sure but I wanted to prove to myself that I could do anything another human being was able to do. Tons of people hitchhike all of the time and I was unwilling to accept that they were any more capable than I was.
There were multiple aspects of hitchhiking that I found to be challenging. It was taking me longer to catch rides than I was hoping and sitting on the side of the road for hours at a time, I was finding it hard to stay positive. Finding places to sleep wasnt really that easy of a task either but as time went by I eventually got better at these things. To be honest, I found that the biggest challenge for me was spending this much time completely alone. I always thought that I had plenty of self love, that I didnt need to depend on my friends and family for my happiness, but this wasnt proving to be true. I missed my friend in Washington and I just wanted to get back home as quickly as possible so that I could see the friends that I left behind, I was trying to jump from one friend to the next as a way to hide my lack of self love.. It wasnt until this became apparent to me that I made the firm decision to stay on the road until this was no longer an issue. No matter how long it took, I wasnt going back home until my happiness was no longer dependent on outside sources...I wanted it to come from inside.
Its crazy how quickly things changed once I told myself I wasnt going to run away from my loneliness. I realized that I still had a long journey ahead of me and that I could either spend it continuing to be miserable or I could start enjoying myself, soaking up the experience. Almost immediately my mood changed...and once my mood changed my experiences changed. I had a smile on my face all the time which made it easier to catch rides. The more rides I caught, the less time I spent stuck on the side of the highway and the more areas I got to see. The sun seemed to shine a little brighter and I could feel that I had a fundamental shift in my perception of this world. Happiness truly is a choice. Ive told this to myself and my friends countless amount of times, but it wasnt until I faced its counterpart, loneliness, head on that it really shifted the way I operated on this planet. Now it doesnt really seem to matter where Im at or who Im with, I always have the choice, be happy or be miserable...and I choose to be happy :)
So this is why everyone was telling me I should hitchhike down California's Highway-1!
This is where I slept last night...on a cliff edge over looking the Santa Cruz boardwalk in California :)
Nothing special, just a quick edit I threw together so that I could show a friend my first experience on a segway (riding one has been on my bucket list for quite some time now)
This is a fan-made music video that I edited using footage that I collected of me and my friend while we stayed in Stinson Beach, CA for a couple of days during our summer long road trip.
This is painted on the back side of the arkley center for performing arts in Eureka, CA.
A building I walked by one night in Eureka, CA while I was trying to find somewhere to sleep.
I would give him money just for making me laugh.
Hitchhiking Blows!
There I was once again, sitting in front of a computer screen checking how much a Greyhound ticket out of Eureka, CA was going to cost me. I had hitchhiked 615 miles from Everett, WA so far and the 'sense of adventure' that I was looking for on this part of the trip hadn't set in yet. Was it ever going to? I thought this was going to be one of the most exciting things that Ive ever done but so far Ive just been lonely, bored and frustrated. Hitchhiking has been a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. No amount of reading through forums and travel blogs could prepare me for the endless hours spent smiling and waving at cars with my thumb up just hoping, praying that someone pulls over and picks me up. I had this assumption before leaving that when people looked at me and saw that I was clean shaven, young, and wearing brightly colored (and kind of expensive) running shoes, that they would be able to tell that I wasn't a bum. I was hoping that they could tell that I was a traveler and would want to be apart of my adventure for a short period of time by pulling over and picking me up….but that hasn't really been my experience so far. Most people I see driving by on the road or the ones I walk by in town seem to do everything possible to not even make eye contact with me. They see my backpack and cardboard sign and assume that Im going to ask them for their spare change (some even give it to me without me asking). To be honest, after a certain point I don't even care if they give me a ride or not…a simple smile or friendly wave would suffice, anything that acknowledges that I exist in their eyes. Is this really the trip I wanted to be on? Maybe I should press confirm and just buy a ticket back to my friends and family. What exactly was it that I was doing out here again? Thats the question Ive been asking myself over and over again these past couple of days and I still haven't came up with a clear answer. Ive already seen and done everything that I wanted to on this trip, now all that separates me from the ones I care about is 1000+ miles of highway. Maybe I should call it quits on hitchhiking and catch a bus back home, I mean, Im not having any fun out here really, so why not? Isn't that what Im trying to do? Isn't that why I quit my job and hit the road in the first place…to have fun? I was getting closer and closer to pressing the confirm button that would finalize my purchase of a bus ticket back home when all of a sudden I remembered why I was out here again. I wasn't hitchhiking for this part of the trip for the fun of it…I wanted to do something that was going to be challenging for me. I wanted to prove to myself that there isn't anything in this world that I couldn't do. I was hoping that in comparison to this journey, the challenges of everyday life would seem relatively simple once I made it back home. And it was as simple as that, I packed back up and started walking again..I wasn't going to be on that bus that leaves tomorrow. Where am I going to be?…Well Im not exactly sure, I might be in the passenger seat of a kind strangers car, or maybe I can sneak my way onto that shuttle that is for people who have medical appointments at San Francisco's VA hospital… or maybe I would be standing on the side of the road with a cheesy smile, a cardboard sign and a sore shoulder (holding your thumb up for hours at a time can be quite the workout) . Either way….I know that Im not going to get stranded anywhere, someone will pick me up eventually and Ill make it home soon enough..and if Im lucky Ill make it back a better person. Someone who realizes how much of a difference a simple act of kindness can make on someones day, even one as simple as a smile :)
One of the fine citizens of Portland that I had the pleasure of crossing paths with.
What is the pupose of falling in love? Why does it exist?
A) Because we all have a soul mate and the purpose of life is to find them.
B) Its nature's way of ensuring that we reproduce.
C) It only exist for those who choose to believe in it.
D) We are all spirits that originate from the same shared consciousness (God, energy, whatever you want to call it) and the nature of that consciousness is pure love. Falling in love with another person is the easiest way to remind of us that, even if it is only on a deep level that we aren't even aware of.
The truth is all around us...its everywhere, all the time. This guy seemed to find it through parkour. Very inspirational dialogue he gives.
What do you want from life?
What do I want from life...from my inner most being, what do I want? This is a question I ask myself all the time. I meditate, I contemplate, I talk with others, I even abandon those things at times and live in silence..I approach this question from many different angles and I always seem to come up short. Sometimes I feel like Ive answered the question for myself, but then circumstances change...I change and I have to start all over. All I want to do is figure out what I want to put my all into so I can quit asking myself this question and do just that...put my all into it. Even during the times when I feel like I finally have it figured out I cant seem to shake this feeling of emptiness, this void inside my heart. Something is missing...what does that mean?
Sometimes Im tired of feeling restless, I wish I could just figure it out and leave it alone...but then again, sometimes I see the void as a necessity. Without the pain I feel from this hole in my heart, what would be my motivation to get up and experience life? Maybe there is no solid answer to this question. Everyday I grow just a little bit more as a person, I change, I evolve...so wouldnt the answer to this question evolve with me? Everyday I wake up a new person..everyday I have to search inside my heart and answer this question for myself....'If I was to die today, what would I want from life...and what can I do in this very moment to go after it'?
Rico and I decided to camp out in the parking lot of a grocery store in Bishop, CA. It’s always a good idea to check the sprinkler schedule with the local homeless people who also camp out in the parking lot…
