Road Tripper

So Fernie is coming up. Quickly.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I leave on the 9th of January, or at least, that’s the plan. I’m picking up some fellow NonStoppers from the Calgary Airport and driving us all to Fernie, another four hours away. There will be four of us total in the Subaru, Myself, Brendan, Malin, and Paul. Brendan is from Austrailia, Malin is from Sweden, and Paul is from England, so needless to say we will have quite a worldly car! I’m really looking forward to meeting them. I think when I actually meet them it’s finally going to click that I’m actually doing this. I absolutely need to be in Calgary on the 12th of January. That’s when all of their flights get in and I’m not about to just let them sit there and wait for me. Wouldn’t that be a good impression?!

Sioux Falls to Calgary is about twenty hours and I’m definetly not going straight through. If I leave on the 9th, that gives me three days to get to Calgary. That’s seven(ish) hours a day driving. Making a stop in Rapid City and Bozeman, I should get to Calgary with plenty of time.

I’m passing some primo skiing areas on the way and I’m definetly thinking of making a stop or two, but that would be tough to do on a schedule like that. I might be able to take the last day of work off, or leave the night after work to get to Rapid City a day earlier. That would give me a whole day to play around with and I’m thinking that Big Sky near Bozeman is looking pretty damn good for a day or two!

Who knows though. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know!

I also have everything I need now. I think….

I do need some new boots, but there aren’t any experienced boot fitters in Sioux Falls. What better place to get perfectly fitted boots than a place that got thirty-seven feet of snow last year (Fernie!).

I don’t really have any big plans for Thanksgiving. I have to work until four and the family is headed off to see my Grandmother in Okoboji, Iowa. They won’t be back until eight or nine or something like that, so it’s going to be a very relaxing Thanksgiving for me.

I think I’ll be thankful for a little R & R…

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone!

What’s yours?

So I’ve been on a kick lately. I’ve been looking at peoples secrets and they don’t even know it, but they want me to look at them. It’s this little thing called PostSecret. or Post Secret. or some combination of those letters. It’s a project that a guy set up where he basically said “Hey, got a secret? Want to tell someone? Tell me!” So people sent him anonymous letters and postcards sharing with him their secrets. A couple books later, it’s a phenomenon and he gets more every single day. Some are really happy, some are really sad, but all are very interesting and worth checking out. The only problem ends up being that you sit there for a couple hours clicking through them.

It really makes you think about what every single person is going through and that no matter what, we’re all human and we are all on a different, but at the same time very similar path. To think that the world is sharing it’s secrets with each other, it makes you feel a little more human, and a little closer to the world.

Check it out here…

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/553751988fiRHAy?start=12

http://www.postsecretarchive.com/

Brighter than Sunshine

The last post was a little dark. Maybe not dark, but not the postings of someone who is about to go be a ski bum for 4 months! That’s me, by the way.

I’m really going to do my best to keep this relatively up to date. My track record hasn’t been the best in the world as far as keeping these things goes, but I think I’m going to do well this time. If at first you don’t succeed, and all that…

I think my crowning achievement in the online semi-blogging world is www.nicolairacing.com. Go ahead, you can click it, but it hasn’t been updated since July or something assinine like that, so be forewarned. That part of my life, unfortunately, is done for awhile. I’d really like to keep doing it, and maybe someday I will get back into racing again, but not right now.

Now. What a novel concept. A good friend of mine and I had a conversation the other day about where we are and what we’re doing. She talked about having this feeling of waiting for something to happen, wether it be good or bad. Even going so far as waiting for the “bottom to fall out”, but none the less waiting. It’s not a horrible feeling or anything, but it’s just that I don’t want to feel like I’m waiting on the cusp of something when I’m able and willing to go and see what’s out there. Peering off the edge, if you will. Hell, throwing myself off the edge. At least it’s fresh. At least it’s new. At least it’s not the same thing. At least I can say that I gave it a shot.

I’m not trying to say that people who are okay with what they are doing are bad or anything like that. Everyone has their own thing, whether it be a new baby, a new job, a hobby, or simply being content in life. There’s nothing wrong with any of that. It’s just not me. Not now.

In the past I’ve had a bit of a difficult time putting down everything that I want to say thinking that no one wants to read any of that. I always kind of thought that when something exciting happens, then I’ll start one. Or when I get to where I want to be, then I will, but what I failed to realize is that all of this “waiting” is life. This waiting is, oddly enough, what I’m waiting for. So hopefully this will chronicle all the parts of my life. The thrilling and the boring, the extatic and the miserable, because that is life.

C’est la vie

Well, that’s life for you. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, a wrench gets thrown in the works and it’s all going to change. For the better for sure, though. I’m Brad. I’m 24. I might be having a quarter-life crisis, but I don’t care. I’m heading to Fernie Canada to go be a Ski Instructor for awhile and try to get some things figured out.

This is where I’ll let you know how it’s all going.

*exhale*