Travel Bug

For a really long time I felt like I didn't have a hobby. I garden for a living, have zero creative talent (i.e. crafting,  painting, singing etc) and generally just like doing a variety of things, whenever folx would ask : What's your hobby? What do you like to do?...I'd draw a blank. I'd ask myself well...what do you like to do 🤣? In doing so I came to a couple important thoughts/stances.

1) I don't need to define a "hobby". I don't need outside validation that the things I enjoy doing qualify as "hobbies". I've never really been one to feel like I have to have validation in most other areas of my life...why should this be any different 🤷🏿‍♀️.

2) I DO have hobbies,  just ones that may not necessarily fall into one's mind initially when you hear the word hobby. 

3) See 1) & 2). 

Alright, so now that that's cleared up on to the reason for this post!

One of my hobbies is traveling and exploring a new place. People are fascinating and the environments we find ourselves in are worth exploring. It's a great big beautiful world out there and I want to see as much of it as I can.

After 15 months in the Pandora Box of SARS Cov-19, with the exception of a few close to home trips (and catching Covid-19 in the process 🤦🏾‍♀️) I haven't really been traveling. Now that there's a few vaccines available (Thank You Science), more people are getting vaccinated & places are opening up I decided to take a trip. 

Through some star alignment, I headed to Oregon for the first time. I was not able to do as much as I'd originally planned (pulled ligament in my right knee) but I did do a lot. 

Oregon was beautiful! Also this trip taught me some geography because I had NO IDEA Oregon was on the coast. 

I'll be back! Until then, enjoy some of the photos I took. 

Until next post, laters

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