Little Wings

"I don't wanna be a jetairliner, I just want to be a little bird. I don't wanna rip the sky right open, I just want my song to be heard; I don't wanna be state of the art, oh I don't wanna get there overnight, I just wanna be part of all this beauty, wanna be part of all this flight on little wings!"
-Kris Delmhorst

Caitlin and I are in Minnesota with her family. All of our stuff has been sorted and either stored or packed into our car. We've been doing some traveling to visit friends and family before we head out on our adventure and we've crammed it all into such a tight timeframe - a couple days here, a couple there. While I want to see everyone we're visiting (which is why we're visiting them!) the timeframe is frustrating.

Part of this journey, for me at least, is to become more comfortable with the in-between. Because my life has always been in some kind of upheaval, I tend to be very focused on "what's next" - an end goal that allows me to focus my energies and pour my hopes into some kind of stream that will guide me to the upcoming step I must take. I rush headstrong towards this climax and forget, a lot of the time, to both enjoy the ride and even moreso to maybe let it take me a little off the course I originally planned on.

While speeding to MN, I passed right by some of the most beautiful country I had ever seen. However, we had to be in MN to spend as much time with Cait's family as we could before we had to be back on the east coast in Binghamton for a good friend's birthday celebration. Dates, plans, obligations. All essential to our lives, of course. But hopefully, on this journey at least, their urgency and necessity will be temporarily suspended, allowing us to "be part of all this beauty, be part of all this flight."

T-10 days to our first farm, San Ysidro. So much to do before then! Will enjoy every minute of it, however.