Some time to kick back for awhile

I'm sitting here in my cozy little room here in Merino, Colorado feeling happy and at peace. Today was a good day, relaxing, peaceful, warm and sunny. I got to sleep in then we had lunch where I got to meet some more family. Karens mom.  After that the rest of the day was just relaxing and calm, we watched movies and talked. I'm so glad I'm here, I am enjoying my family and the time I get to spend with them :)
I will be staying here for a few days, to re energize, rest, and spend time with this part of the family :)

I was thinking, I never explained what brought on this trip, why I decided to do it and where I'm headed...Well, I'm pretty sure that this trip has been building up my whole life, and I feel like God's been preparing me for it ever since I was about 16. Life sort of unraveled, things came together, and here I am! Everything leading up to this, and more intensely ever since about September of this year, things seemed to be happening specifically to prepare me for this trip, emotionally, financially, mentally...It's so cool when you recognize when everything around you is happening for a purpose. I have always had that 'wanderlust', not that I was unhappy in Medford, OR. I love Medford, I grew up there, it's my home...but I needed to see the rest of the world, it felt like a requirement :) it was one of those passions that everything I did in life, there was always a layer of that in the back of my mind and heart. I always talked about wanting to see all these places, move here, go there, do this...but for whatever reason, I was meant to wait until now. And it was well worth it :) I'm at the age where the lights are going off like crazy, I appreciate things more, I can literally choose the path I wanna go, where I wanna be, even who I wanna be...
This is so amazing, and I have never been more happy than I am at this moment. Right now.
As far as my route goes, I'm literally just driving east. When people ask, "where are you going" I say, "just east :)" I moved out of my apartment, sold everything I had, packed my car and just, went! Literally just going where God leads me, totally and fully relying and trusting in Him. Let me tell you, it is such a different kind of free, that you wouldn't normally feel unless doing this, alone.
The family that I had planned on stopping in and seeing were Karen and Felix in Colorado, my aunt Vonnie in Missouri, and my cousin Mykel and her family in North Carolina. Theres also Riley, in North Carolina...We've known eachother since I was 12 years old, and we are still as close as we were almost 13 years ago :) I guess some people are just meant to be in your life for the long haul :)
And of course, as we all have seen, I have been able to see much more family than I expected, so that is a definite blessing.
Once I get to North Carolina, I plan on setting up there for a bit, making it sort of a "home base" and going up north and seeing New York, Washington DC, and hopefully Maine, as well as, go down and see Georgia, and maybe a little of Florida. Theres SO much I want to see! I don't want to stop after the east coast! But we'll see where God takes me!
I havent even just a little, made any sort of plan or arrangements for my return back to Oregon...I will go back when/if God leads me to, but until then, I will go, be, stay, wherever I'm lead, can you tell this is a total leap of faith trip? It's actually quite hard for me to not take it in my own hands and try to make plans, but, this is a good experience for me, I needed this to be able to really see what faith is, and how to live by it.

"travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

Miriam Beard