The view from my van window at sunset
The weather has been cold and often rainy here. My business has been slow, so I need to take whatever clients I can, whenever I can. Therefore, I haven’t been able to plan a trip that involved two or more days off. I have friends sort of nearby, but who would require several days of travel back and forth, plus time to visit. At this point in time, I’m just unable to take that that many consecutive days off.
But the lesson is clear to me. For whatever reason, I seem to have to keep learning it over and over, or maybe I keep having it pop up because I have NOT learned it yet. I Live Here! Wherever I park for the night is home. I was waiting to buy the van before I could feel like my journey had begun. Now I have the van, but still often think that my journey will begin when I finally sell my building. I have to get it through my head that the journey has begun (for all of us, no matter where you are, physically, mentally or emotionally), and I need to enjoy it NOW! Not when I sell my building. Not when I go to my first long-distance destination. NOW!
I woke up this morning beaming from ear to ear (the temps will be near 70 today, so that makes everything seem a bit brighter, a bit easier). The moon was about to set in the west and I could see it out my “bedroom window.” The sun was about to come up in the east, and I was warm, and Cosmo was curled up next to me. My head was in such a good place, and I reminded myself (once again) that I don’t have to be somewhere else to feel good about living in my van, about living on this planet! I got up, made coffee, snagged a small coffee cake from my cupboard and a piece of jerky for Cosmo and crawled back into bed. I read a bit, returned a few e-mails, and mostly just sat as the sky grew light and I finally saw the sun coming up. It was BEAUTIFUL! It didn’t matter that I was in my own backyard, parked in an asphalt parking lot. I was home (in the van) and I started to plan out my adventures for the day. I have to work today, so my “adventures” will have to fit in between clients, but that’s fine.
I’m absolutely loving living in the van. It’s a bit strange to cook dinner here, eat, have a drink, watch a DVD or YouTube video, read, and then go to bed. I wake up and walk Cosmo and come back to the van and make breakfast. I go inside when I have clients, or we go for a ride, but for all intents and purposes, we live in the van full time now. It feels like home.