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photos from a roadtrip

after arriving in Vancouver, i'm working on my resume (i know, i know, procrastination at it's extreme), and taking care of some other details that i finally have time for. imagine that - time for things that matter, like income tax, business particularities, and friend correspondence.
in the meantime, here are some photos from my roadtrip. very few, but some to share the experience nonetheless.
an unanticipated night in winnipeg, thanks to a cracked transmission  //  daily essentials on a road trip  //  the prairies are a beautiful wasteland  //  when you don't wash your hair for a long time, you end up with a mohawk meets cowlick 

perhaps the most beautiful (in design) hotel room i've ever stayed in  //  a stop for a photoshoot with lara in the mountains  //  the view in kamloops upon waking - or maybe mid dream  //  kamloops bike ranch - municipalities take people's health more seriously out west apparently (photo from jeff)

just a smattering. stay tuned for plenty of posts inspired by my roadtrip. 

a little travel plan

oh hey guys. i didn't see you sitting there.
me? oh nothing. just moving across the country. 
i'll be back soon. and maybe if i catch the luck of some wifi while roadtripping across canada, i'll share some photos. 
in the meantime... here are some things so you don't miss me immensely. 
i'll be tweeting my way across canada. i'll likely be posting some photos to instagram. 
and, if you so desire, you can try to figure out why i'm doing what i'm doing. 

weekend cop out

this weekend i spent with nearly everyone in the world i love, AND selling goodies to new friends at the pop up shop - spending saturday and sunday with allie and nicci. it was awesome, and busy, and WONDERFUL.
then, i remembered, i move on wednesday (a bit pushed up, unexpectedly)...... and so, again. no weekend in summary, other than photos, and some goodies for a monday.
'last day of work' dresses; pop up shop with the ladies; a little birdie and a little re:claim daintiness. (all photos from my instagram)

while packing, i'm clearly procrastinating.... so. here's what we have as a monday treat (instead of weekend in summary): shia labeouf shows his little shia (seriously - this video has nudity). one of the most beautiful, and sad videos i've ever seen, that allie showed me this weekend, and i can't stop thinking about. read more about the sigur ros project here.
happy week! i'm having a small surgery on thursday, so i'm sure i'll have a few more blog entries popped out once my apartment is packed, and i'm sitting, healing.

standing still // moving quickly

not much to say today.... sorry friends. it's been a long 2 weeks, 1 week, weekend, coupla days. however, one of my fave writers on the net wrote something amazing, that i want to share. it really resonates with me as i go through this weird/awesome/awkward/unsure/open ended time in my life (do 'times in our lives' ever end?? do we ever just get to BE??!), and i read it and re-read it lotsa times. 
i think you'll dig it. it means something to everyone. even if you're the opposite of a person who stays in one place. 
VANCOUVER (photo by me from my vancouver vacation - on pinterest)


a few moments that settled more deeply with me in the essay....

 "Every time I quit it wasn’t because I was bored or couldn’t do the work, but because I felt like I had been there long enough and I needed to experience more life, more places, and learn more about people. 
....Of course, this goes against the advice of all the Bohemian and Beatnik writers and countless other artists who proselytize life in motion. There comes a time when you’re either traveling to gain experience or you’re running away when things get hard. I want to stay and fight. I want to fight my restlessness. I want to fight the impulse to drain my bank account as soon as it gets full enough. I want to build something here.
The idea of this isn’t romantic, I know that. It’s not riding the rails or living down and out or scraping by for your art. There’s no great adventure in signing on for another year. But my heroes have changed. Now I’m shooting for Carver and Bellow, maybe even Faulkner or McCarthy. As much as I loved Kerouac and Bukowski as a young man, I’m moving on. I’ve written those books. It’s time to aim at different targets.
...I can’t say this is my proper place, where I should be for the rest of my life. I have no intention of calling that shot. I’ll fight to make it work for as long as I can and if that doesn’t work I’ll make a change. But at least this time I’m not looking for another place to save me. Places never do."
TORONTO (photo by jeff kalman - on pinterest)

 i have to say, i'm still a person who seeks adventure, and wants to move.... constantly. maybe partially it's the ADHD, but i can confidently say it's mostly a longing for what else is out there. what have i missed? where else can i start fresh, and learn to love? so maybe one place isn't yet for me. maybe one place isn't about growing up, but instead becoming sure about you, and what is best/good/the right thing for you. that's what i like about this piece.... the exploration of doing what feels right. whether it's staying in one place, or jumping on a plane. 

thanks bart, for exploring.

rick mereki's thoughts on the lives we live.

i often have dreams of grand adventures - a life of trotting the globe, eating new foods, trying fun and scary things, and meeting new people at every corner.
rick mereki has done it. with the help of 2 other dashing young men, he scoured the globe to turn over a month of experiences abroad, into 3 films based on 3 concepts based on things we all know well. as he says, "3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage". that's what 44 days of travel gets you.
but explore, they did.
honestly, these videos are simply moving (ha! not just because the first one's called 'move'. sorry. that wasn't even on purpose). they get you where it counts, and remind you that you need to do it all, in every way possible... or you're missing what's important. 

so. on that note - move, eat and learn, because the world is too large to do it all. get what you can, when you can. i know i will.
rick's tumblr  //  rick's twitter  //  rick's vimeo channel