Reflections from a Girl Camping Weekend

Sometimes I find myself boxed into a corner of my own design.

Doing what I have always done.  

These last few months when my life plan for full time travel has altered for a while, I have been using the time to rethink what day to day life looks like while I take care of family business.  I have clearly determined I will continue to seek time in nature and travel is a priority.  Having FUN is a must!   

While I have always considered myself somewhat of a loner and not particularly outgoing,  I don't consider these attributes a bad thing.  It is more like finding my own zone and making sure that I have enough balance between quiet time and social time. 

Then in a moment of  new clarity... I break out of sameness of self-imposed predictability

 and try something new.

Making new friends

While I have always considered myself somewhat of a loner and not particularly outgoing,  I don't consider these attributes a bad thing.  It is more like finding my own zone and making sure that I have enough balance between quiet time and social time.

Challenging Some 'Ole Thinkin' Patterns.

This weekend adventure allowed me to rethink some old ways of how I spend some of my time and meet my emotional  needs.

I have been thinking how as I've  gotting older, I have made mental lists of the places to go and things I have want to do while I am able.   However, it is often the little changes in how life is lived that reap the most satisfying rewards.  When I was still working and raising children I struggled to find enough alone time to recharge my internal batteries.  As, I find myself retired with much more solo time, I have also found myself desiring more social connection time.

This weekend adventure allowed me to rethink some old ways of how I spend some of my time and meet my emotional  needs.

                                         GoodTimes Around Food                                                                     

Camp Fire Laughs and Fun

 So for this weekend I choose to push my comfort zone a little and challenge the way I think and operate.  Don't worry, I'm not changing myself to be someone else.... just pushing the edges a bit.

For 60+ years I have thought....

I am a loner

I'm generally not a joiner

I hate Shopping

Shopping at Farm Chicks

Yep, ME shopping.

I discovered I have just been shopping at the WRONG places.

I am a junk shopper at heart!

I even found a vintage trailer as a shop!

There was plenty of time for nature

 

There is no pressure to participate
in activities.
      The gals encourage.....
             Do what makes you happy.

And of course there has been plenty of Trailer Time.
The gals have been very open and willing to show off their little doll houses.

Once in a while I find a setting that can combine both quiet time and social time.

Some of the trailers are simply adorned others are elaborate.  But they are all fun and an extension of their owners.

 

Most of all the trailers represent the fun and humor these gals share.

Four of us joined Sister's on the Fly.
 

  My SOTF number is .....4859







                                                                      
                                                                                 





                                                                    
While there is are a few rules (no husbands, kids, or pets) there are plenty of informal get togethers to share in the fun where the informal group decide how it will go .  I look forward to occasionally meeting up with some of the gals and s t r e t c h i n g a little farther.
   

Sometimes things turn out differently than ever imagined. 

 And that can be a good thing.

~ Happy Trails ~