Jessica Wandering

The dream is to travel, to get is shape while I still can, to be athletic before I get older and have more aches and pains. I have made a deal with my older self that if taking a year off at fifty makes me work longer before retirement, or not have some comforts when I am 85, that is ok with me.

I love to mountain bike, and I don’t feel a need to do harder trails or jump much higher off the ground. But I do want to go for longer rides before I get tired. I do want to feel less tired and sore after a good ride. I want to ride in all the mountains in all the climates and see all the scenery. I want to feel the strength in my body and the flow of being on the trail moving fast and dodging all the obstacles.

I want to reset my brain from the work-a-day world. Get out of the cycle of avoiding bed because that only means I have to get up and go to work. Out of the cycle of feeling constant fatigue and slow moving brain that comes from simply not getting enough sleep. I want out of the mindset that I have to work all the time without longer breaks to step back and get perspective on life and what makes it worth living.

I want to re-engage with my creative and spiritual selves. The selves I don’t have time or focus for when I’m in the mode of full or nearly full time work. Nature feeds these for me and I want to be mindfully out in it every day.

Feel free to skip the reading bits and just look at the picture posts. I hope to be finding my insights in the written parts and it may be of interest only to me.

Loading up in front of our house in Seattle. Note the gigantic bag on the roof of the car.