I’m here to discuss life and possibly help you reflect and become more self-aware on your own journey.  Remember it’s the journey that is most important, not the destination.

2014, my 57th tour around the Sun, has been a life-changing year for me.  Starting December 1st of last year, my goal was to rid myself of almost all of my material possessions by selling them via E Bay, sidewalk sales and Craig’s List.  Then on January 1st I quit, what some people might consider my career,  what eventually became my job of 33 years.  I’ll explain why in future blogs, but to sum it up, I wanted to taste, see, feel, touch, hear and smell freedom again.   Although freedom is a state of mind,  I’m not sure when that was ever realized in my life.   I’m assuming it was when I was a child, wandering the pastures around my boyhood home.  I spent much time alone, growing up in the country with my friends miles away, seeing them usually only at school, so much time was spent reflecting and thinking about the world around me.  New ideas were learned more slowly back in the 60s, with no internet and only four channels on the black and white TV.  My father let me have a shortwave radio he bought from an insert ad that came with his Texaco credit card bill.  Here I discovered more of the world around me by listening to propaganda radio during the Vietnam War and the Cold War with the Soviet Union.  Not much has changed on the propaganda front, as now we are fed it through our own government and a culture that gladly accepts it.

My plan, travel the world, starting with the area with artificial boundaries known as the United States of America, to be a journey with no end, until of course I am no longer physically capable.

I made a 16 day test trip in March with Beau my companion dog of 11 1/2 years.   More to come later.