Nevada 203
In the years of traveling and living out of my car, I haven’t had a guest stay with me or live alongside me. It’s not something I’ve actually sought to have I find the idea quite uncomfortable. It’s a glance at my routine and odd behaviors in my solitude. I also feel strongly that living out of your car is already a vulnerable way to live life then you add someone else to this mix and the vulnerability doubles.
All that being said I have a guest with me and she is willingly choosing to stay with me for X amount of days in my car with no said plan. I have warned her beforehand of the unknowingness were both about to experience but I suppose that’s where the beauty lies. The beauty that she came to Las Vegas on a 9-hour bus ride to experience the utter cluelessness of my life but that sounds selfish because she isn’t solely experiencing my life but her own. In that, we might both discover things about ourselves and each other. The story of how I came to meet Madeline my awesome guest and voluntary prisoner started in Yosemite and it continued down the line in San Diego, Los Angeles, and now Las Vegas. Madeline is moving to New Zealand in the coming year which shocks me to know that she would spend her last days in the states with me a dirty rock climber living out of his car in Las Vegas. I praise her for such a move because I know firsthand it’s not easy to drop the life you might be used to and change the course of its direction for a whole year. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with a load of excitement and eagerness. It’s irrefutable that change will happen whether you like it or not but we can at times control the type of change that happens to us and we can be masters of how we respond to that change.
I think we can all learn something from anyone who takes control of the change they want in their lives rather than allowing change to come to them. We should seek change and not let change seek us after all its the only constant in this world that never stops.
Looking forward to these next few days with her and allowing her to infiltrate this brick wall that I’ve built so high. Let us hope we don’t scare her too much.