Sunday, August 30, 2009

Welcome to my world.. the traveling circus!

Ok so I am assuming you already know me, an in fact that would be assuming anyone reads this. So, about me and my situation. I am 24, a female, a photographer and generally a maker of bad choices; this trip was luckily not one of them. So I came to be on this trip in an RV with my family through a series of events. I quit my job in Florida as an insurance agent for the gecko and moved back to hawaii where I was from. There was a plan when I moved but that quickly got changed because as I was flying to maui,a very different chain of events was unraveling in my moms home. I was happily buzzed from my layover in  Las Vegas where I discovered two for one drinks and that 40 year old women go to las vegas bars to pretend they are strippers and annoy everyone within view with their sad shimmying on the bar I had no idea that my plans were about to be changing rapidly.  The original plan was me staying with my mom until i got settled and going back to college which might have taken about 6 months to get the ball rolling during which time i would stay with her. I can't say it was a bad plan but it turns out I like the new one much more now. Anyways I landed and to make a long tory short mom and her boyfriend rob sold his business and within 2 months were in Las Vegas buying an rv and I was on Oahu trying to figure out how to make this work in the worst economic slump Hawaii has seen. So 6 months later after sending about 300 resumes out and having my economic livelihood stomped on I went back to Florida.  Economically; it wasn't much better. I do have stock photography on the side but I would be hardpressed to make that work as a full time job. Ok so it would be impossible.  Anyways so my mom offered to let me come on her adventure and tour North America and take pictures, so here I am. I have been to 8 states an through 2 countries in the 3 months I have been on this tour. We should keep going for another year and then when we have found someplace to settle down they are opening a business and I'll help them with that and hope by that point my photography is where I wasn't it to be and I can publish a book and have a good studio going. I love the unknown aspect of it all. I get to see so much and experience all kinds of new things from gold panning to hiking all over alaska! Anyways so this is an account of some of my experiences..  hopefully no more including old women trying to strip, but you never can tell...