I finally got a blog to work. It only took 10 months!
This is Frolic, reporting for duty.
Summer is such an enriching time for people. The sun on your face almost makes it feel like you're invincible, even if just for a moment. During my months off work, I have had some of the most incredible adventures of my life thus far.
When people ask what my favorite place I've ever visited, my go-to was always Yellowstone. When @Radeo and I went there last summer, I felt something deep inside me shift and metamorphosis into something I had never known before. It felt like every bone in my body was humming. Like I had just stepped into another dimension and every cell in my body was quivering with life.
Well, I have found another location that resonates deep within me, and it is Iceland. @Radeo and I met up there in May, while she was just in the beginning stages of her incredible 100-day around the world quest, and I knew the moment the air hit my lungs that I was going to fall terribly, and deeply, in love with that place.
I have more stories than my fingers have the energy to write, but maybe I'll pick a few of my favorite stories and write a series of blogs about them. A blog novella, of sorts. (Blogvella?)
After I returned, I embarked on another mini trip to Chicago. I most definitely have a love/hate relationship with that city. Something always grand and wonderful occurs, and then just for universal balance, I suppose, something awful follows suit.
My friend and I rented an Air B&B location in a great part of the city that was right next to the train and everywhere we wanted to go was only a few stops away. The girl who was renting out her place works for the John Hancock Observatory in downtown, so she gave us free tickets to go. I had never seen Chicago from that vantage point, it was pretty incredible.
We got drinks on the beach and got caught in the rain for a while.
And when we finally made our way back to the apartment we had rented, we realized someone had broken in through the back kitchen window and stole all of our valuables. I was now missing my laptop (with my entire writing portfolio on it and any picture of anything I had ever had), my Nintendo 3DS (which was basically my Horcrux), all my jewelry (not valuable monetarily but precious to me), and even my car keys. Thankfully, my friend is the one who drive to Chicago so we were still able to get back to her place in Michigan, but I was stuck there until I got another set of keys for my car. Very heartbreaking, unfortunate event.
About a month after Chicago, I was called away once again to attend my brother's wedding in Alberta, Canada. I had a pretty horrible day of flying to get there (5 flights between 6 am - 1 am), but the view helped.
They had a beautiful outdoor wedding at a park with a huge bridge and canyon behind it. I took my mom out for a mini adventure while we had the time.
I start work again next week, so no more trips for a bit. The rest of my summer can be summed up with photos to save you more of my diatribes.
Stay groovy, cats <3 <3
Fro
