Heading back out on the road today. It’s been a summer of varying degrees of good and bad. Not one job worked out the way they were expected to, I lost my father, and I found love and trust with my uncle, brother, sister-in-law, cousins, nephews, and nieces.
I rode horses, surfed lakes, climbed fake rocks in Utah, hiked, blogged, sold my old blog, and put together some new ones. I road tripped to the Mexican border, biked down a 7000 foot mountain, revisited childhood places and people, and visited Palm Springs, and San Diego.
I hitched across Canada with $4, had breakfast with my sister in San Francisco, learned some construction skills, slept in a tent for a couple of months in the Rocky Mountains, held a big garage sale with stuff that wasn’t mine, sold stuff that was mine on e-bay, and became a favorite uncle instead of a distant figure.
I’ve made some money, not enough to do everything I wanted to do, but enough to get me by until I can figure out how to get more.
And now…back on the road, heading back towards Morocco and plenty of adventures on the way, no doubt about it.
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About Vago Damitio
Vago Damitio (@vagodamitio) is the Editor-in-Chief for Vagobond. He jumped ship from a sinking dotcom in 2000 and decided to reclaim his most valuable commodity, time. He bought a VW bus for $100, moved into it and set out on a journey to show the world that it was possible to live life on your own terms. That journey took him from waking up under icy blankets in the Pacific Northwest to waking up under palm tress in Southeast Asia. Three years later, his first book, Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond was published. After diving into the Anthropology of Tourism and Electronic Anthropology at the University of Hawaii (with undeclared minors in film and surf) he hit the road again in 2008. Since that time,he's lived primarily in Morocco and Turkey, married a Moroccan girl he couchsurfed with, and become a proud father. He's been to more than 40 countries, founded a successful online travel magazine (this one!), and still doesn't have a boss. Life is good. You can also find him on Google+ and at Facebook