so I was just on an adventure of a lifetime… and I would love to tell you all about it.
For the past two weeks, my life has been on x games mode; I feel like that’s the best way to describe it. I went on a two week adventure (3845km), and then journeyed back home (welllll kind of) for the rest of the summer (I’m actually going to be at my cottage for a couple weeks, AND THEN I am home finally).
So my friend from home flew to Seattle (AMAZING), and we went on a little adventure. I packed up my life again. Crazy how quickly that happened. Although I denied it for two months, before I knew it, I was packing up to leave Seattle for good. As per my letter to Seattle (the last blog I wrote, which feels like forever ago), I learned a lot from this life journey. I am grateful for the whole experience, both good and bad. But bad wasn’t actually bad, it was more of a growth experience in adulting.
So yes, leaving Seattle had some sadness to it, but I headed straight into my west coast adventure, and it was amazing.
Travelling with friends has such a wholesome feel to it. The fact that we grew up together and now get to adventure around is just so eye opening. Like we’ve grown together and now we’re here, road tripping BC. And BC is already amazing, so it just added to the whole experience.
I had never gotten to see too much of Vancouver. I mean, my sister and I drove through the city a little bit on our way back to Kelowna from Whistler one year, but I never got to stop and really take it all in. And it is just crazy, but in such a good way. I absolutely loved it there. And I swam in the pacific ocean for the first time ever. And biked around Stanley park, and went to Granville, and hiked in Cypress. I just got to see sooooo many beautiful places, and just get outside!! We tapped into our granola selves for this trip.
Vancouver was just so conveniently a walkable city, so it was nice to just get out and about so easily and make it to the places we wanted to go.
Kelowna was also a stop on our trip. Back in the home away from home. It was peaceful and beautiful as always. Went to my favourite places, coffeeshops, stores and it was nice to have this familiarity as I was starting to adjust to being at home.
After Kelowna, we started making our way to Alberta, and this was my first time ever there. And I want to go back. North BC is beautiful, but the second you cross into Alberta, something about the mountains just changed. I think it’s the fact that they had more peak-like structure, but it was just such a bonus to the drive.
And then we parted ways, and I picked my mom up from the airport and crossed the stampede off my bucket list. It was crazy and wild, but exactly what I had hoped. I think a big reflecting piece for me was the fact that all of this was happening and I didn’t expect it for another few years. Someone I know had done the cross country road trip before and took 20 days or so, and I thought to myself that I would never have the time to be able to do this. But, there I was, completing a trip I dreamed of, and because of this wonderful opportunity, it was able to fall in place.
I feel like I forget that things will fall into place at the time they are supposed to. And something I thought was years away happened this summer. And it was exactly what I needed. For self-discovery, self-growth, and rebuilding my love for life. And it gave me a new perspective on how some things are just out of my control and that’s all I can know.
Life is crazy, and things that are meant to be will be.
STAY KIND:)
with love
grace <3