Rochester, NY

11:02 AM

It’s been a rough weekend. The weather went from 60 to 25 and my mind is filled with questions and some doubt about all of the instability and my future. It’s been 20 months since I left my apartment, my friends, and my family in Charlotte. There have been days that I’ve been on the strongest natural high I’ve ever been. There are other days the societal pull of money and stability make me wonder. It’s not easy after living successfully on my own, making the money and living the good life, to make a total 180 and being 30 and not having your own place and not being able to buy things and go out to dinners.

The question is, How bad do you want it? Are you still passionate? The good still outways the bad and I see a lot of great things as the end of the tunnel approaches. My heart tells me to push on, that I have to share all of the stories and advice that I was given on the road. So the book and the journey continue…