In the last 12 months…
I quit my job and sold all of my belongings.
I travelled to four continents (not including the one I live on).
I lived out of a backpack and wore the same outfits over and over. I didn’t hate it.
I read a lot of books and learned a lot of new things. I miss my book club.
I watched my friends raise tiny humans that I love like family. Watching friends become parents is such an incredible sight.
I lost a bunch of weight in Asia and then gained it all back in Europe.
I wrote over 100 posts on our travel blog and therefore did no other writing.
I fell in love with a few democratic presidential candidates.
I volunteered for a presidential campaign in Iowa and learned a lot more about the primary race.
I had a vicious panic attack in the back of a camper van and then slept for three days afterwards.
I took over 20,000 photos.
I slept on the couch one night and had neck pain for two weeks.
I cried at everything. The first time I saw an elephant in Africa, when it was too hot in Singapore, at every monument and museum. But I’ve learned how to hide it so I’m not a complete mess in public.
Looking forward…
In five minutes, I’ll be cracking open this book to finish the collection.
In five hours, I’ll be making this recipe for dinner.
In five days, we will be leaving small town Iowa to set off on our US road trip. We are heading south first to see some of the Civil Rights museums and some states we’ve never been too.
In a few weeks, I will be camping under the big Texas sky as we check off one national park after another.
In a few months, I will be riddled with anxiety again as we try and find a place to settle and call home. Jobs will be applied for and adulting will commence.
In a year, a president will be sworn in and I will be able to say that I did as much as possible to make sure it wasn’t Donald Trump.
So that’s it for the future, because it’s too hard to think further than one year out right now.
I will continue to be asking a million questions, getting angry over twitter, being constantly in awe of my nieces & nephews, practicing yoga (it never makes perfect), cooking comfort food, listening to The Man by Taylor Swift, bookmarking places I want to go all over the world and crying at every happy moment I see on TV and in real life.
Like this? You can read the others from the past too: 2019, 2017 and 2016
