Back on the bus!

It's been an emotional couple of days. It's difficult to leave a place you love-especially a place like Cuzco-no matter how exciting the next adventure is going to be. When you're so in the moment and so involved in the beautiful family of friends that you've formed, completely lost in a gorgeous city, unique to anywhere else you've ever been, loving every minute of the new, exciting life you've created for yourself, it's difficult to pull away from all of it. You know it's right because you've done this before (you've also tried to resist it and then learned every time that holding on to people or places when it's time to let them go is painful).

Even though I know that leaving was the right thing to do because I felt it in my heart, I can't believe how sad I was to say goodbye to everyone and how difficult it was to leave. Mind over matter, though! I'm currently on a nice 22-hour bus ride from Cuzco to Lima where this beautiful adventure will continue, just as it should. Listening to my music and being on the road again is quickly snapping me out of the sadness of saying goodbye and back into adventure-mode.

I feel incredibly lucky to be living this life...going from city to city, and soon country to country, exploring the towns, finding new ways to grow, learn and take care of myself, getting to know people from everywhere who astound me with their beauty and wisdom and growing to understand more about this life that I'm living.

I have a long way to go-certainly a lot of ups and downs and lots of lessons to learn; lots of countries to live in, people to meet, activities to try and things to share. I'm going to continue making the most of every minute and every adventure I have in this lifetime!