RV Boondocking Housekeeping... and Finding the Power of Freedom...

 A goodly bunch of Mental Rambling here today folks! :o)

Seems like a lot of folks are thinkin' along the same trails the last week or so... Box Canyon Blogger, Ara over at "Oasis"... Froggi Donna and the list goes on... all seem to be sippin' their coffee while doin' a lil' re-evalutation...

So... it seems kinda natural, that as I was rollin' my Big Red Bike on that wide circle through Alaska and the Yukon, and then comin' back to the Eagle in Colorado... that I'd find my own self walkin' through another period of similar 'reworking'.

I think maybe... even if you've got a good grip on where you should be headed... ever'body needs to stop and take a close look every now and again... to just make sure the trail they're traveling... is still the right one for them...

... and Do Not Be Afraid to make adjustments... Minor or Major... the only shame would be to talk yourself into goin' the wrong way... 'cause you Already started out that way, and it's too late to turn back...

It ain't Ever too late... unless you're dead!

My hope... for me... is that I never quite get to where I'm headed... the trip has always been the treasure to me... getting to my destination has always meant... the trip is over! Bummer! :o)

One thing that really got driven home, one more time, on my 8678 mile Motorcycle Ride to Alaska was that Less is More! for sure and for certain... fact is, that as little as I had with me, packed on my Motorcycle... I was wishin' I had even less! :o)

Living out of a pair of saddle bags and a dry bag...with my ruck for a lil' extra, proved after a Wet month to fit my personality pretty well... I guess I forgot how light I traveled back when I was rodeoin'...

Had I to do it over again... I'd figure out how to cut down and combine the ruck and the dry bag into one bag... sitting on the tail rack... Cowboy Light!

Now here I am... in my third day home... and that experience and thinkin' has me doin' some more re-arranging in the Eagle... in preparation for our impending departure on the first of our many RV Boondocking circles of the next few years...

Distilling even further our 'distilled' possessions... arranging for ever more efficient use of our limited space... and really, really looking at 'stuff'... while asking a few Questions; 1. When was the last time I even used this? #2. Do I Really even need this? and 3rd. Would it be Easier to just scrap This piece... and buy a new one, down the Road... IF... we ever even need one?

I sometimes wonder if I'll ever be satisfied with where I've culled down to... maybe the proper answer is, No? ... maybe... the proper answer is; I'll keep an open mind on this subject... and if somebody can show me a more efficient, Better, way to do the job of living... carrying even less Stuff along to do it... I'll cull again! :o)

Meanwhile, I dropped the Truck off at the Diesel shop yesterday afternoon... for the work of correcting the overheating issue... and maybe a couple of other warts... so we're hoping the mechanical surgery don't dent our meager wallet too hard... but... a reliable truck is kind of a necessity for our way of living... ain't it?

Along with the normal rig and stuff preps for another Leaving... I've got plenty of work to do in the RV Boondocking Income corral! Ever'body knows that a whole lot of folks have really takin' a whuppin' the past few years... this Ol' Buster included... But I'll not complain... too much...

It sure seems to be working out, that maybe the last couple years were simply an education I needed... and has trotted out a couple of opportunities that had not even amounted to a wisp of smoke from a fevered brain... three years ago!

My lil books, that I converted to ebooks a lil' over a month ago, seem to be moving along... even without much Hawking on my part... so far! :o) No barn burners... but... they are getting out there a bit...

Over the next couple of weeks I've got to do some touching up of the formatting of those lil' books... got notified by my e-book publisher they had some warts! :o)

The big job is to completely rebuild my Bookstore so that it does its' job as The Place for folks to find my e-books... and hopefully succeed at the job of producing a greater part of our RV Boondocking income... or to put it another way... My version of "Workamping"... where I'm sittin' in Camp... sippin' a cup of really fine Cowboy Coffee... and the "Working" comes in where I'm also, sittin' in front of my Laptop... tap tap tappin' out another Wild Cowboy Yarn on the keyboard! :o)

There's other irons in the fire... some that may pan out... some that may never see the light of day... but the point is.. the only thing holding me back at this point... is me... and the same holds true for most ever'body else.

Anything worth doing is something that makes you juuuuuuust a mite quivery inside. If it doesn't... look again... maybe you need to reach a lil' farther... If you stay comfortable... it usually means you're not moving... Learning new things... finding New Opportunities... Living through a NEW Experience...

... has one especially critical demand... You have to Choose to take the Risk!

Standing on the side of a Mountain in Alaska... or layin' in my tent at night... out in the middle of nowhere in the Yukon... I wasn't quaking with fear...  but there was this lil' poke of discomfort... way down deep... I was, alone... things around me were new and unfamiliar... and let's face it... all 150, Billy Bad Ass, lbs of me... was No Longer at the top of the food chain! :o)

There were things I was a mite concerned about... money, the sufficiency of my equipment... plain dumb luck... of which... my luck is generally pretty damn dumb! The weather... and whether I'd get converted to Bear crap before the next Yukon sunrise..

...There's a million things to worry about....

... That lil' Poke of "Discomfort"? That's that uneasy feeling you get when you're "Pushing the Envelope" a bit...

Here's the real deal... at some point... like I quoted Ol' Gus before... you have to just put all those worries aside... and say; "Let's just go on and go if we're goin'!"... or... resign yourself to existing in that safe, predictable... socially acceptable... comfort...

If that's how it's to be for me... well.. shoot me in the head and call it an accident! I cannot concern myself with all the things that might could blow up on me... Just bow my head, grit my teeth... and ride into the wind!

What's great about all this is this... All that queasy, scary discomfort... is followed shortly by the Glorious Exhilaration you feel... when you Realize... that it's also what you have to pass through...

... to get to the FREEDOM you find yourself Living in when you come out the other side!

When You reach out and take a good solid grip on your fears, your worries, and all the "worker drone" B.S. the system beats you down with, from the time you got to quit using diapers... and shake the stuffing out of all that crap!... You suddenly feel a Power... A Power they never wanted to let you find out about!... and a Power you'll never want to ever let go of again! HooYa!

Wandering the Great and Glorious West
Brian

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