hola, my peeps!
Let’s hope that this journal entry is the last one for a long time that I write via dictating to my phone while driving.
Why? well, because I am only about an hour and 15 minutes away from being home. 3 weeks, 14 states, and over 5,500 Miles later, I’ll be home, and hopefully, I will be back in to a better routine instead of the traveling craziness. I’m definitely looking forward to getting back to a routine.
I am also looking forward to my bed. I’ve had many many many nights on this trip of less than adequate sleep, including last night period I went to bed sometime around 12:30 last night, I think? And then I got up sometime around 5:00 in order to get everything situated for my mechanic today.
With all the driving, I had lots of time to think today. It was a 16-hour, or so, drive from where I stopped last night to my house in arkansas, not including gas or food stops, just driving time.
I’ve been trying to use my phone less while driving, which makes it a lot harder to take note on my pondering. Still, I was able to gain some good insights while I was pondering. over the next few days, hopefully I will get some of the things that I’ve learned to go on my trip written up in some separate posts. There has been an absolute ton on my mind over the last 3 weeks.
Anyway, I had a great gospel discussion with one of my Utah friends this morning while I was driving. We’ve had some really good discussions over the last few days. It makes the driving a lot easier in addition to just being awesome to have those types of discussions in the first place 🙂.
I tried to do a little meditating while driving, which is quite a bit more difficult, probably obviously, than it is when you’re sitting on a chair or a couch or floor or something. Still, it’s beneficial. 🙂
I also listened to a few other talks while I was driving, and then I had another really long, really good conversation with that same Utah friend.
pretty much all the rest of the day today after that conversation has been spent organizing the work day for tomorrow. I accidentally weigh over scheduled for tomorrow. I think I put like eight cars on the schedule just for me.
Oops.
Wish me luck 🙃. Nothing like jumping back into work by overwhelming myself, right? 🙃 I’ve got to find myself another employee. cross your fingers, say some prayers for me, send happy thoughts my way, whatever you can, please. Getting another mechanic is the next step, I think for me, in taking my business to the next level and being able to hang up my wrenches and be done.
I’m so ready to sleep tonight. 🙂
#1. I’m grateful for my little miracle Honda that, unless it dies out in the last 46 minutes but I now have left on the drive home, made it all this way with few issues. I hadn’t driven it more than 500 yds before driving at 5600 plus miles, only checking the oil level before leaving. Brakes in kansas, and the tire in california, and that was it. So so so grateful.
#2. I’m grateful for a good conversation with good friends–the things I learned, the joy I experience… It’s good stuff. 🙂
#3. I’m grateful that our Drive has gone by decently quickly, and that I’m not crazy tired right now, which I wouldn’t expected after yet another short night sleep last night and very long drive today.
#4. I’m again grateful that I was able to Jimmy rig my cruise control to work. The trip would have been a heck of a lot more challenging without cruise control.
#5. I’m grateful for air conditioning. I turned it off briefly after getting into Arkansas because I was actually cold, but the car got warm and super humid in what seemed like in just a matter of seconds.
Well, my Lovelies, I’m 38 minutes from home! I am a bit over the edge physically. Not sure how that happened. I’ll plenty hydrated, so I’m either over hydrated, or I’m under nursed for the day. probably the latter. I’m going to try and eat a bit more on the drive before I get home. Hopefully that will stem the rising tide period (I’ve got a migraine wanting to form. Right now it’s just a headache, but I’m on a knife’s edge of having it be a fully blown migraine.
Perhaps you can wish me luck there as well. Thx. 🙂
Loves and hugs.
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 