Unless you’ve experienced true anxiety first hand, it really doesn’t make much sense, and it’s difficult to understand how one person can behave so dramatically in a seemingly normal situation. That’s why in January of 2015, I was glad there was no one else in the parking lot. It wouldn’t have made any sense to them how I somehow damaged the 2010 Camry my Aunty let me use while I stayed in Grandma's basement.

Volcano Village is a mossy little town nestled in the Ohi’a rainforests of Hawaii island, 3,500 ft in elevation on the edge of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The rain comes in every day, getting caught in the forests, sweeping across the desolate volcanic craters, and slowly smoothing the expansive lava fields nearby. Often, it feels as quiet and surreal as an alien planet.

I just finished my first marathon. (cough cough, virtual marathon I had a month to complete cough cough)

I just finished a 2 week Naked and Afraid Challenge where I ate burnt grubs so I’m not too picky about

Since my little legs could carry me, I've trekked the way my parents have- big and strong. So, when Dad and I decided to take on the Appalachian Trail (AT), it seemed fitting to do a thru-hike.  We could cover ~10 miles a day for 2,190 miles from Georgia to Maine, carrying only what fit in our pack and soul. We're intense, somewhat obsessive people who have both found healing from PTSD in nature. We know and need the vast space and peace for our inner and outer worlds that only comes from extended time in nature. 

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It's a perfect day on the coast of New Zealand, almost too perfect.

Any thoughts or stress left bouncing around my mind from the previous week of gigs and travel have been pulled out with the tide.

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