Tag Archives: Travel reflections – “I may not have everything I want, but I have everything I need” was a phrase I often used when people were incredulous about how I could live in a tiny camper van AND LIKE IT. It’s been awhile, though, that my phrase no longer describes how I feel. Here’s the honest truth about why Bruno and I are searching for a new home-on-wheels.  2016 may not have been a year of great travel stats for Wandering Footsteps – it’s been more one of house-living, social visits, and the search for our new home-on-wheels. Yet, as I sit in a Walmart parking lot near Los Angeles reflecting on the past year, I can safely say it’s been one filled with important moments, special memories, challenges, and lessons learned. Happy New Year from us to you!  Now, after the recent presidential election, it is more important than ever that I travel through the US. Because prejudice should never be met with prejudice, intolerance with intolerance, fear with fear. I know now that it is through my travels in America that the seeds of anger that Trump has sown within me with be uprooted.  Though I have spent little of my adult life in my home nation of Canada, I assumed travel here would be less eye-opening, less illuminating, and less educational. Instead, traveling in Canada has been just as – and perhaps more – revealing than travel abroad. With my traveler eyes set on myself and my own culture, these last few weeks have been a thoroughly unique travel experience.  By bringing me intellectually into a space of reflecting on gratitude, happiness, and mindfulness, I find that my spirit is opening more and more, recognizing the things for which I am grateful in my daily life. I am learning to live more attentively, noticing the joy and happiness that is all around me, thereby bringing gratitude into the present moment. |
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