With only 9 days left till I leave to New Zealand.

Only 9 days left till I leave to explore the world with the girl I love.

9 days left that my so called smart phone countdown app tells me.

9 days left and my mother is worried about all the water between Iowa and New Zealand as she is looking at New Zealand on a globe for the very first time.

Seems completely un real, but this is the realest thing I have decided to do since the day I decided to take an Oath to serve my country.

 I am beyond excited for this chapter in my life.  

This time around I feel that I have made a decision that is 100% for myself and damn that feels amazing.

Tonight I’m cleaning my truck out. I pretend that I’m on an episode of “GOLD RUSH” as I pan for any penny or nickel that I can dig up in the pay dirt of trash.

 WHOA just struck GOLD! James Buchanan $1 coin Hell yeah! Damn $1.69 boys and girls is what I was able to scrap from my truck. 

All my life I have collected every penny I could find. In basic training I used to pick up all of the loose change around the payphones on the base.

 Apparently everyone just throws out their change around the payphones. Last year when I changed in my coin jar I got back almost $100 dollars.

Anyways. For those that don’t know me I’m sorry if I get off track a little bit.

9 Days left and I am forcing myself to forcing out more of the unnecessary things that I own. At times I feel as If I was born in the depression in the understanding that I grew up poor and now I feel that I actually have nice things and that if I gave it up then it will be lost forever.  ( My card collection is insane, Jordan all star cards)

9 Days left. Till Teryn and I begin our oddessy of taking over the WORLD! I couldn't of asked for a better partner in crime than her. Lesbians want her, Girls want to be gay to be with her. Owners of restaurant and 5 star resorts can’t resist themselves to hire her. Teryn is a motherfucking Boss.  Her and I are surprising enough on the same sheet of music as they say. She is my best friend and I know Jared would agree.

9 Days left. Over 90% of this place we have is my shit. My mother and grandmother are a tad bit of hoarders if you will. I just came to throw away an entire box of birthday cards that my mom has saved. I’m talking about birthday cards from 1 to 18! That’s a shit ton of birthday cards. And then there was the certificates. Damn I had certificates from when I apparently was good at show-n-tell. ( Which by the way was the best! I always had a ninja turtle to show-n-tell!

9 days left. Whisky is the drink of choice tonight. I took a truck load of my childhood and military memories to Mark and Carina’s (Two of the best human beings I have ever known! ) I took 2 truck loads of shit to Goodwill last week., but there are just some things I can’t part with. I either want to keep them for my children or I want to have them in my nursing home so I can remember how badass my life was.

9 days left. I still feel that what is most important to me will die….Alternate Decision….ugh my passion and my pain. The guy who I thought was going to help….turns out isn't. and that blows. But I guess AD is only going to exist when it is in my hands. I was naive to think it would be alright with someone else.

9 days left. Right now all I want is to travel the world. All I want to do is to be in New Zealand. All I want is for Teryn to be happy and I want to do everything I can to make her happy.

Goals that I personally have for these travels: I want to be able to let everything go. ( It’s only after you have lost everything, that you are free to do anything. JUST LET GO! ) I want to not think about ADC just for a little bit. I want to be a decent photographer. I want to be an adventure guide of anything, Rafting, mounting bikes, zipline whatever may be. I want to see the world.  I want to EXPERIENCE the world.

I used to be considered weird for wanting to get out of Iowa. A lot of people don’t ever leave their hometown or their state. Out of fear or commitments to their families or whatever other reasons.  One the biggest reasons I went into the military was to get out and experience life and the world. My 2.5 years in Germany gave me the taste of travel and I have been even more hungry since.

9 days left and I can’t help to think about one of my best friends in the world and a person I have always and will always consider my sister from another mister. Kassie Rose Tibbott. I’ve know her since I can remember. This girl has always been there for me and she is one that told me to take the chance on Colorado and I owe it to her of where I am at right now in my life. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be in Colorado and I wouldn't be back to my original fun loving self. Sure we've had our ins…and outs but nonetheless she is my constant that I will always have for life and I am more than grateful for that.

9 days left. Waiting on Jared’s Death Certificate so I can bring him along on these travels. For those that don’t know I still have a good amount of his ashes (mostly those of his penis…haha ) and his sister has a map of everywhere he is currently at and I hope to get him to many more places.

Okay so this has been a long first post from me. I hope you all have enjoyed it and please ask questions or comment.

At the end every post  I want to leave with a question or two for our readers.