Mountains to Seas Writings

  Week Two Monday May 8th 2023 Woke up feeling pretty sore after the golf and hiking that we've done recently. The coolest thing we've discovered about the Garden/Sisters RV Resort is that they have an off leash "dog park" that encompasses the entirety of the rodeo grounds next to the RV Resort. For the first time ever, Finnegan has been let completely off of the leash and allowed to explore open fields without restriction. Karilyn is working diligently to ensure that the opportunity doesn't go without training. Weather has taken kind of a turn and isn't allowing for much of the activities that we would like to do but we have found Deschutes brewery and 10 barrels brewing as well. The Bend area is really beautiful surrounded by the mountains and rivers but yet again I've just struggled to understand how anyone can live in these places with them costing well over the median cost of living.  Tuesday May 9th 2023 The weather might just finally allow for an ad...

  WEEK ONE Friday April 28th 2023 Days prior to the closing, Karilyn and I finished the cleaning of the house, and set up camp at Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds. We figured that the restless nights were likely to increase in frequency and intensity as we got closer to the closing of the sale of the house which meant we would do well to find healthy ways to decrease the stress. A lakefront campsite would do just that and allow us the chance to pregame the cross country trip in the RV. The campground at GMF was beautiful and the last sunrise prior to closing was a reminder that after the storms pass, the sun always comes out.  After the finalization of the closing, Karilyn and I packed up the Ram 1500, the RV, and the animals to head on out towards Nashville. It wasn't even 5 minutes into driving that a phone call from my worried mother would change a few things. Mom was worried that the 1500 could not handle the stress on the engine and the brakes with the fully loaded trail...

INTRODUCTION I am starting this journal to collect my thoughts, ideas, and experiences into one place in words and sometimes with an assist from various forms of media. It seems like only yesterday, I was pouring over legal documents pertaining to a case I was working with the DSS with no end in sight to the amount of work or the potential for any meaningful conclusion. I've never been a fan of people chasing their own tail and I certainly wasn't going to start chasing mine. Yet, there I sat, chasing my own tail, trying to catch up on work that may or may not produce a measurable result that would make sleeping easier. After a brief but meaningful conversation with my lady, it was decided that I was running out of pavement at the county and needed to take the necessary steps towards a future that would be more oriented towards helping people with the emphasis being on helping and not a massive burden that included meaningless repetitive paperwork that seemed endless. So without...