Timing is everything

Josie and I have been on the road just over a month now and I can honestly say it’s going very well considering we’ve been living in a very small space together 24/7.  When we started this journey, I told Josie the thing I wanted to do the most was to visit the Redwood Forest.  So finally, the past several days we’ve spent camping and hiking among the most magnificent trees found on the face of our planet in the Jedidiah Smith Redwood State Forest.  While having lunch we had the pleasure of talking with a couple of local ladies I called K and K. They recommended we hike the Brown Creek trail, their favorite, located on the Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway in Northern California.  We ended up visiting many of the Redwood forest groves and found the Brown Creek trail to have the densest biomass, thick, lush and spectacularly breathtaking.  Only 5% of the original old growth Redwood forest groves exist today thanks to the many early environmentalists that fought the greedy lumber companies to preserve what little was left of the majestic giants.   From there we made our way south and met a guy by the name of Nickles Millner in Santa Rosa, CA in a Trader Joe’s parking lot.  He strongly recommended we visit the town of Sabastopol, and so we did.  This beautiful little city is filled with unique shops of all sorts.  We found a couple of “gotta have treasures” in a shop called “Many Rivers Books and Tea”.  We also stumbled upon the Guayaki Mate Headquarters and Café. If like me you’re not familiar with Guayaki Mate click here and read about it.  A fascinating and inspiring story of two college students wanting to create a positive impact in the world thru the awareness of sustainable rainforest products.  While educating ourselves about this amazing product Guayaki Mate, we met a couple of very nice young college students, Noah and Kyle.  Noah is originally from Minnesota and Kyle is a local girl from the Sonoma valley region.  They were excited to hear what we’re doing because they too are planning on getting a small camper and traveling after they’re finished with their studies.  Our journey thus far has been nothing short of amazing!  Enjoying meeting interesting people, eating incredibly taste food and of course visiting awe inspiring places of natural beauty.  I’m getting used to this kind of lifestyle and am grateful to be sharing with my life long partner, lover and best friend.  We’ve found ourselves in that magical flow of life I like to call, Serendipity.  Our G.A.S. tanks are filled.