passion for a story... a tale... a new adventure... a place to enhance your life.... why do we travel? why do we desire to read new things? to see new things? to explore new things? to get outside of our box and be things we are not? to push ourselves to our limit? i sit here, after finishing a nap, watering the garden and collecting the dry clothes off the line, thinking and typing my thoughts about setting up more specific goals for myself. and for my relationship.
i'd like to do more than what is expected of me this fall, this winter and this coming year of my life. i'm a bit too young to know what i'd like to do as far as jobs and so that stuff works itself out. BUT does that mean i need a plan and make goals to keep the rest of my life happy? i think so. i'd like to make it to glacier NP in january. i'd like to feel more comfortable camping and living outside in the winter. i'd like to get the gear which will help me with those skills. i'd like to think more detail oriented about learning to ice climb and about future longer-term and more in-depth mountain escapades/ascents. "more" than that, i'm very interested in learning how to skijor this winter. and to improve my endurance level while on skis, snowboard and snowshoes. i'd like to work on commuting in the snow.
and now that i've listed all these winter time skills, i'd like to say my end of summer and fall goals. and yet none of these are specific to pete... maybe i'm just assuming that he'll be willing and wanting to do all of these as well. hmm.
so fall goals= more hiking and biking, more camping, a century ride, hotsprings, a few final farewell to summer barbeques, a new dog and some really great meals. and i suppose that on the home front its important to also think about enjoying my new positions nannying, making the bills, looking for other opportunities (and being patient). these fall goals feel a bit vague but i guess i feel like they are close to happening so they'll make it alright with out the definition some of my winter goals will need.
changing thought trains, changing situations, looking for new stories and having the passion for a new goal....
~nicole
