Voy a México

So the countdown is in effect! I leave here in just over a month. I will miss being here for a few months, but I am so excited to start my next set of adventure plans. First off, I have purchased my tickets to Mexico and will be there for 3 weeks. My friends have told me about so many things that we will be doing while we are there. Surfing and hanging out at the beach, tripping in the desert, going to see the Mayan pyramids and a ghost town!

I can't wait to get away from this country that is familiar to me and venture out and experience new cultures and lifestyles. Americans are so ignorant to the many different cultures that are out there on this beautiful planet. I want to change that for myself. I will see everything I can see before I die! Always learning and seeing and doing.

I have other exciting news as well. I had kind of been worrying in the back of my mind about money in the off season. I had thought about bar tending 1 or 2 days a week just to make some cash. Well, thank science i don't have to do that! I will be pouring castings for my Dad's friend. See, he is a woodcarver and they make reproductions of their work with concrete. He said he will pay me per piece, so that should get me by.

I have started to scale down the plans (at least for this season) on the "playhouse hippie loft bungalow". I am still going to be doing everything I wanted to, just not right away. I am just thinking that it will be much more expensive than I thought originally. I did however get a very cool "recycled" piece for the "kitchen", this really cool old pink sink inset in a counter top of pink tile. It was sitting in front of some one's garage and it did not look like they needed it.

Ooh! Speaking of great "recycled" finds! I have found my travelling companion. A powder blue hard case Samsonite suitcase, purchased for $1.29 at Goodwill. I will put a sticker on it from every country/place I go. It will be a tangible passport of sorts.

Life is amazing. I am so happy with my choices and they person I am turning out to be (I know it's corny, but you have to tell yourself that from time to time), I am only 24 years old, I can't wait to see where the rest of my life takes me!