COME HITHER…

Well it’s almost here. The day I step up into my Dodge Ram and head for the gas station. Yep I’ll gas up early Friday morning grab my favorite killer (kill my adrenals and heart) coffee and creamer, enough to last several hours. lol Then off to Payson I will head.  It’s about a 2 1/2 hour drive up to Payson. Then a right turn will head me on out to freedom. I’ll be able to smell it just ahead.  Reaching the turn off that will take me out to Holbrook, Heber would be just straight ahead, a sense of  I am almost there I have almost made it to the high desert where freedom awaits overtakes me.  Excitement builds, Ive been on the road about 3 1/2 hours but before I will know it I will be sailing along with the junipers and sage brush, the wind blowing in more excitement as I near Holbrook.  Once in Holbrook another right turn to hit the civilized hwy that screams along at 75 miles an hour. Yes that is the legal speed limit. It feels like you and everyone else on that road have to race along as fast as possible to finally escape the clutches of Arizona as you grasp for safety in New Mexico.

Not too far now about 5  hours into the trip to reach the half way point of Gallup, New Mexico, where a left hand turn will take me to Shiprock and the long desolate (time for reflecting) drive through the Navajo (Dine’) Rez.  This feels like one of the longest stretches of the entire drive although its only about an hour and half. I find myself looking for things that are not out there in that barren high desert always trying to just make out Shiprock…

…the Sacred rock peak  that the town was named after. (Photo credit: Tom and Dee’s Excellent Adventures)

Shiprock emerges from the deserts mirage dominated wasteland from what seems to be out of nowhere to speak to you of its Sacred past and of a past far beyond that as the prehistoric vertebrae rise from the sands of time. Welcoming you to a new spiritual experience.

Huge sigh of relief will overwhelm me as I enter Shiprock, New Mexico (home of many wonderful Dine’ ) and turn North another 1/2 hour toward Cortez Colorado.  I will have been on the road for around 8 hours once reaching Cortez. Now just two more hours and I will be in Silverton giving my daughter and son-in-law a welcomed hug.  Now Im feeling at ease again, feeling like I’m coming home.

I have been on this journey many times over the past 6 years each time wishing I would not return.  This time I will not return. I am piercing the Veil – of a new life.  Only three more days…

REBIRTH

 

Update…

As of right now I plan to stay in  Silverton for the winter and through next summer. That could change of course as I’m certain that once up there things will start billowing around me and opportunities will emerge from the fog.  However, as it sits right now I will stay in Silverton until end of next summer.  I’ll spend the time researching in more depth the places I may want to live, being able to see them in all four seasons and meet the people who reside there.    

I am leaving all  my furniture behind.  This will become a new post on simplifying life maybe tonight or sometime tomorrow… 

… the art of letting go. 

As it turned out only what will fit in my truck will go with me.  I am truly piercing the Veil, taking only what I can carry with me into a new and illustrious world.

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