Riding through soundscapes

- March 6th, 2019 by Julie -  

One of the reasons I left home was to be able to hear myself. My brain often felt like it was in overdrive, but it was in the moments when I wasn't using it that I felt most alive, happy, and even wise. Those moments were usually when I was outdoors, climbing, biking, or skiing. 

Eventually I started to see that thoughts and ideas - especially the ones the strangers of the internet were touting - were not going to give me the answers I was looking for. I knew I needed to hear the instructions my intuition was whispering to me, rather than what I was hearing through the social media loudspeakers.

And that was one of several reasons to go to Alaska to practice a simpler way of life for a time, out of range of other people's advice and wishes for my life. However, even after a few months of biking across some of the wilder, quieter landscapes of the world - Alaska, Canada, and the Rocky Mountains - I was still trying to tune the world out and tune in to myself. 

As I finalize this blog post