Steak and Berries all of the meat. none of the fat.

We arrived in Silverton, Oregon on Saturday, May 2 via this abominable Budget truck.  By we I mean Gavin, myself and Nico (my 4-year-old fabulous feline).   We left San Francisco on Friday after about a month of almost complete chaos and a solid week of packing everything we own.  I must say though, it felt really good to take that time to ‘cut the fat,’ as we had been saying, and finally trash or donate all those things we had been carrying around for too long but knew we would never use again.  So we came with the “creme de la creme,” as Gavin called it, of all our earthly belongings and stored it all in various locations around the Lord residence.  We did that because after an adventure that will last for about the next ten months, we will be moving to Portland, Oregon.  But before that, we’ve got other plans.

Do tell, you say…

Well, we are staying here for about another week and then heading back to San Francisco for about 10 days to catch one more show at Big Umbrella Studios and have some sort of farewell shindig with our dear, dear friends there.  Then we’ll be heading to Lake Tahoe for what is sure to be a very exciting wedding, that of Whit Scott and Claire Fisher.  After that, we head back westward to spend a month on StoneLake Farm interning with Melinda Stone and Francis Lake, two wonderful friends of ours.  THEN Gavin will be heading back up here to Oregon to take some summer school classes and I’ll be heading to the Santa Cruz area to teach for three weeks at Original SDC Summer Camp for my third year before heading to Los Angeles to spend some time with family, friends and the sunshine.  And finally, in the Fall of this year, Gavin and I plan to spend some months traveling and Wwoofing in Southeast Asia before coming home to Portland.

And that is why I’ve started this blog (only possible with the help of two lovely men, my cronies, Drew and Jeremy) – to write about my adventures and avoid sending mass e-mails to my loved ones who might wonder where I am and what I’m doing in the coming months.  I have felt a lot of feelings lately as many things have been coming to a close and many new things are beginning but in the last couple days, when I’ve finally been able to relax, i’ve mostly felt very content.  I will miss my friends in San Francisco terribly but they are my friends for life and I look forward to us finding each other over and over again wherever we end up in this world.  I will miss San Francisco but it was my time to go and I will take what I learned there everywhere with me for the rest of my life.  I guess the point is I feel good about the decisions I’ve made, I feel blessed to have met the people I have along the way and I feel excited for what is to come.

So if you want, stay tuned and I’ll try to keep it interesting.  I’m running with three main categories – Adventure, Craft, and Edibles, because that’s what life is all about in my eyes…  Oh, and there’s Love.  Which I’ve got.  But I like to think it’s synonymous with adventure…