July 1st, 2009
For all of you kids that asked me if I was really living in my van last year, well now I actually am. Today was the last day in my trusty old Anchorage apartment and tonight I’m in the mountains in the EuroVan. And yeah, I really am that jobless hippy playing the guitar in the shaggin waggon and showering in the creeks.
Now THAT’s something you high school kids can aspire too. Ironically, it’s a lot like college except I pay my own bills and don’t have to follow anyone’s instructions. Not to mention I also stay clean, cook for myself, and like running in the mountains and roller skiing in my free time. So I guess it’s more like post-grad work in the school of life.
July 1st is my Independence Day! All of my possessions are either precisely placed in my van with significant function, or in one of four numbered boxes labeled “ship to patrick at xxxx” should I require them. I have no responsibilities that require intricate little nit-picky computer brain thinking puzzles that stress me out and keep me up at night. I can finally start focusing on the last phase of my insomnia problem with lots of time off and right brain energy. How nice.
Tonight I’m up on Canyon Road looking up at Flat Top Mountain under a blue bird solstice sky. I finally got a little clear snot in the tissue this evening so the plan is to get off my grungy behind and run as far as possible tomorrow, then take a long post move out nap.
After ankle roll, sickness, and moving out, it will be the second workout in 8 days. Once again, I plan to run as far as I can with natural intensity over technical terrain, breaking the two hour mark and hopefully exceeding the three hour mark. If it’s not in the cards, I’ll cut it short and push for a 3 hour run/hikle with intensity the next day. This is the plan of the van hippy.
yaaaaay nap.
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