city girl transformed...

A city girl…has been transformed!!

I kinda like the outdoors!!  This girl put away her heels all summer and slipped her feet into the hiking boots purchased at a thrift store.  For $4.99 they turned out to be the best bargain around!!  Currently they are sitting on the dock in disarray.  There are mud stains and caked on something that is going to require a deck brush to get clean.  But these same cheap boots took me to a place that I never thought I would like going.  On a hike up Harbor Mountain in Sitka, through muddy brush to get to a salmon colored beach in British Columbia, to the landing pad of a helicopter on a glacier, through silty water in Glacier Bay, along an Alaskan shoreline where salmon were spawning and bears were feasting, and now back to the city in the Pacific Northwest.  

There are many places that I have traveled to and several stamps that I have acquired in my passport.  I have visited almost all of the states in America and I am about to visit my fourth continent.  Through every single trip and every small adventure I have gained knowledge and insights into so many things.  You learn how to travel only by experience.  You learn confidence only by feeling fear.  I have learned languages while I was teaching my own.  I have changed careers because I learned how to survive and keep the journey going. 

But in the last four months I have learned more than I had anticipated about myself.  I managed to gain more perspective in exploring my own country than I have overseas.

And it is these hiking boots that took me there… 

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