the last nomadic nights

tonight i sleep in my own bed after 242 nights of being a nomad. that's two and a half times the length i thought this adventure would be. while visiting my friend from college this past week, i was sitting at her dining room table thinking about the changes that have slowly come over me during this time and i was cataloging all the small things like being more open to try new foods and letting go a lot faster when things aren't quite perfect {like that new scrape on the car, the little dent on my new iphone, etc} or being more open and ready for adventures. these are the small things and i know — i know — that these small changes are just facets of all the bigger changes that happened as well.

so, here are the final places i have traveled through and dreamt in these last few weeks between finding my new place and finally being able to move into it.

nights 217 & 218

a last minute petsitting gig while i was housesitting 

in february for my friend in ethiopia.

night 230

after housesitting in february i moved to eden's 

for the last week here before traveling west 

{first night in her bed and the rest in the living room on a grand air mattress}

nights 231 to 234

& 236 {after a night's adventure to vancouver}

the grand air mattress

night 235

in vancouver for a quick trip with my new friend, 

christina to visit an old friend from nine years ago 

 nights 237 & 241

onward to st. louis, radiohead shows and sylwinn's

{the first and last night of the trip to missouri}

night 238

crashing after the first show in st. louis 

with another old friend, cloudie  

nights 239 & 240 

at the aladdin hotel in kansas city, missouri 

for the 2nd radiohead show

back to sylwinn's for one mostly sleepless night. then:

final night: 242. 

a late-night pick-up from the airport. 

a touch delirious but happy to be back 

ending in another restless night struggling to get to sleep. 

movers scheduled to arrive at 9am march 14th, 2012, exactly 8 months after this crazy adventure began.