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k well.... it's been a minute since i thought about blogging. and i was planning to stay so caught up on it this little trip.. but of course i have been preoccupied.. and my few week journey so far has been nothing of what i expected. which is good.... 
we were supposed to leave the first week of june. didnt happen. that led to a lot of sitting around, jobless, in heebs, waiting on people to do all this promised shit on the van. didnt happen. ha. but its all good. erin and i champed it and the amazing mike bardole hooked it up. we worked with him on the van (truck) and i learned a whole lot about a lot and we had many good laughs as us tiny girls were covered in grease and changing brakes, wheel barrings, filters, the whole shabang. oh and did i mention mike's sweet playlist blasting as we all sang along and talked trippy philosophy and what not... good times. this process did take a biiit longer than hoped but i got to hang out with my pals and my dog. speaking of my dog, jackson, i had to leave him in kamas :( only for a month or two. on a badass ranch. but i hate it. anyone coming out this way soon feel free to have him tag a long ;)
so after rushing to get everything finished... literally, rushing like mad people.. barely finishing the bed and innards the day before we peaced and packing up the whole thing the next morning... i was delirious.. we spent the first night in reno (not pretty) and then headed to Truckee. that whole week was spent wandering around, many beautiful lake days, margaritas, driving a pal who needed a ride clear out to BFE and heading back to Truckee through Grass Valley (interesting) .... the not so lovely part about this week is that i got a cold and 2 other gnarly infections and had to go home for a week to go to the dr. al and i came back to utah on a train and erin was so kind to stay with the van. while home i got to catch up with my family, go paddle boarding, sleep lots, see my jeffrey, etc. after that week home i was ready to leave again and get headin to oregon, finally! al and i headed back on the train, made it for shays sushi bday, and went straight to oregon. and my is it beautiful. havent even made it to the coast yet but the Mt. Hood/Hood River area is lovely. surrounded by forest and nice people.
after a TON of house hunting we (alexa, oz- her man, and i) are now waiting one more week until we can get into a sick cabin in the woods that we have for a couple of months. woo. sigh of relief. and now all we need are jobs! universe send sweet jobs our way :)
.... every step of this journey has been something totally different than what i had planned for but its all meant to be. even my cargo carrier and rack flying off yesterday and breaking ... so i guess for the next bit i am going to be living in the mt. hood area, not farming yet, and just chilling out in the woods... sounds alright to me.