Blog 2: RV Roadtrip with Sis, Bro and Nature

March 10-12, 2019

I left on a roadtrip Monday, March 11th with my sister Gayle and my brother Michael. We are headed to Gayle's home near Santa Rosa, California where she will part from us. I'll return with Michael to his home in Plano by a yet to be determined date. Then for me its east to Kentucky to visit a friend and from here no plans. I'm a nomad, in my 5th year of a "journey with no destination tour." Every day is a new adventure, with no plans, just one day at a time, being as much in the presence as possible. Spontaneity is the aim. The purpose is for life to flow, allowing synchronicity and serendipity to develop as the universe allows it. When the future and the past are eliminated, then the magic happens.

We decided that we would travel no further than around 200 miles per day, so our first night was spent at Abilene State Park, 212 miles away according to Google Maps. Some schools were having their springbreak, therefore the park was more crowded than expected for a Monday. We walked a trail in the park toward Abilene Lake, but decided not to continue there because a busy roadway was the boundary line between it and the state park. We only walked about a half mile before we had to return due to a muddy and flooded section of the path. The park only had one interesting feature, a blind where one could watch birds at feeders, otherwise it was just a good spot for an overnight stay on a usually boring roadway through this part of Texas. Spring had not sprung yet in this part of Texas, so the landscape was barren and brown. Staying here had the added benefit of being cheaper than a private RV park near the interstate, plus state parks give one more room between camping spaces for more privacy.

Monahans Sanhills State Park was our next stop, 200 miles distance. The scenery here looked very much like Padre Island but without the ocean. The wind was blowing between 30 and 50 mph with gusts up to 60 mph along with thunderstorms in the evening. Unfortunately our plans for staying overnight in Guadalupe Mountains National Park were changed when a park employee warned us about high winds there up to 110 mph, along with a stiff head wind for our drive up there. No rain the second night amidst the dunes, but the winds blew with more intensity than the previous evening. Never in my life had I experienced such high winds for a duration of two days.

Nature keeps reminding us to respect its power. The Airsteam's aluminum shell protected us from nature's indifference to our existence. The key is to tune in to the proper wavelength of sorts when the small part of our environment is calm and at peace. This is the magical moment when inner peace and the existential are in harmony. This is when we experience not coexistence or separation with nature but we are connected in an instinctual way that feels harmonious. It is the true feeling of inner peace and oneness with the universe. Infinity doesn't matter, nor does the past or the future. We don't feel fear, worry, stress, or pain. It feels like existing without existence. Maybe it's nirvana, being what you are now.