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I have been home from the great sailing adventure now for a few weeks and it’s all so real. The empty feeling of everyday life and the grind of the world is heavy upon me. My spirit is restless and my hands idle. What to do what to do.
I’m in Grand Rapids living and working for a contracting mail delivery company. Its great pay and I have done some of it before I left on my trip. I work many hours but the reward is I’m saving for the next great trip. The life here in the city is not conducive to my personality. I feel the need to return north as often as I can to get my lungs full of freedom, space and tranquility. I have been working on some video lately with my digital camcorder. I’m trying to develop some editing skills. I have posted like four videos that I have done already and hope to keep working on my techniques, and skills.
The next video camera I get will be a commercial one with Hi Def capability. I have found the one I want it’s just the cost is nearly 3000 dollars. With this camera I will start doing weddings to help offset the cost of software and accessories.
My adventures into the next phase of life will be I think wilderness oriented. I’m working on trying to run the Iditarod sled dog race this winter and I will be going to Alaska next spring to live up in the bush for the summer studying the grizzly’s, and filming their world. I have wanted to do this for many years and I think the time has come to go ahead with this. I have winter camped at 30 below zero and stayed in the bush camping for 8 months at a time so I know about camping and a solitary world, which is what I prefer anyway. This summer and fall will be used just studying bears and where to go for the summer of 2009. I will find an old trapper’s cabin and rebuild it to stay in for 5-6 months. I plan to be flown in and picked up in the fall. In that time I will film the world so many of us are unaware of and photograph the landscape and raw world.
I can not live here in this world for to long it eats away at me. I must have a planned escape in the future to look forward to. My being is different than conventional people. I long for adventure, escape and transitional views of other ways to life. My heart is with my dreams they must be exercised if I’m to keep living. I must see the strange and new, the other side of the parallel plane we call reality. I feel alive when a new adventure is in the making and my emotions rise like the swells of the ocean. The highs and lows are apart of my personality, they speak to me in riddles and equations, for which I must solve.
Well enough of the crazy talk and dreams for awhile. I must be off to work. The next few months will be hard but the sweet ending will be near. The replenishing of my bank account is all part of the preparation to escape yet once again. Keep with me and again soon you will be entertained by yet another great adventure and story. I will put up a story soon on of how I got involved with my 73 sled dogs and my dog sled touring business I had in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. So keep checking with my site and stay free and living.
Skipper Out!