Happy New Year from GreenGreenGrass!
This is the first year I didn't go home for Christmas, so my very first not spending it with my entire family. I needed the break from traveling, but I did miss returning home to the cold midwest air slapping me in the face as I exit the plane. And so, I sat here in Los Angeles.
With more than a week off of course I wasn't going to use it to lay around the house. I dragged my husband on a little road trip. We ended up driving more than 1200 miles within a 2-3 day span through Vegas, for a day, and then to Death Valley. I hadn't been Death Valley before and it was close enough to check it out in the limited time we had.
I looove unplanned road trips...driving, letting things run into you, rather than you planning what to see.
We arrived in Death Valley during that time of the day when the sky is starting to settle in. That time when the sky seems to be winking as a reminder that the sun will soon be retiring. We climbed Zabriskie Point with me in the wheelchair. It wasn't easy, but I didn't want to miss the sunset. I wanted to see what was on the other side of that cliff point. Of course we all know, sunsets in areas with negative population are the most glorious, and so I stood under the Death Valley night sky, wildly unadorned with color blazes ripping through its secretive sky. It was really beautiful. The innumerable stars were crystal clear.
On this trip we ended up driving through the entirety of the Valley.
There's alot of things I may not be able to do or areas I can't travel through in life but the ones I can, you can bet your botttom mario coin that I will find a way to do it. In fact, I probably drive my husband crazy by how much I want to do. I can't sit still, even though I'm destined for a chair.
When you suddenly can't do something, you realize how important the "can" is. Don't waste your "cans". Don't waste time reading about it, go see it. There is so much to see out there and all I really, really want to do is see it all. That is all I've ever wanted to do since I was a little girl. I'd daydream when I was old enough I was going to escape and backpack around the world...alone. I may not be able to do it exactly the way I had daydreamed about as a child but I still want to do in whatever degree I can.
Happy New Year! Make it count. Remember, you can do anything and everything! If you want it, it's yours.
xoxo