Staceyoga

Day 16 - Viva Las Vegas! 🏁 🎉🙌

Holy s%@ #! We made it.

This has been such a meaningful journey for me on a personal level, and it’s been so cool to be able to share it with you as well. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all of your support & encouragement as I rode into the unknown.

I left seeking adventure, and will return with plenty of that, as well as a whole new perspective on, and appreciation for, life and the world around me.

I chose to end my trek in Vegas because it’s also meaningful to me. It’s over-the-top, ridiculous, exhilarating - and unapologetic as such. My friends and I used to make an annual pilgrimage here. My family tree includes card players and gamblers, and I’ve enjoyed rolling the dice, watching boxing matches, and celebrating birthdays here over the years as well. Vegas is a place that forces you to decide where your boundaries are, and boundaries are my new favorite thing to explore and define (thanks therapy!)

All the love and gratitude. I encourage you to explore the things that make you feel more alive as well.

Thanks for riding with me!

🙏💗✌️

Day 16 - Viva Las Vegas! 🏁 🎉🙌

Holy s%@ #! We made it.

This has been such a meaningful journey for me on a personal level, and so cool to be able to share it with you as well. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all of your support & encouragement as I rode out into the unknown.

I left seeking adventure, and will return with plenty of that, as well as a whole new perspective on, and appreciation for, life and the world around me.

I chose to end my trek in Vegas because it’s also meaningful to me. It’s over-the-top, ridiculous, exhilarating - and unapologetic as such. My friends and I used to make an annual pilgrimage here. My family tree includes card players and gamblers, and I’ve enjoyed rolling the dice, watching boxing matches, and celebrating birthdays here as well. Vegas is a place that forces you to decide where your boundaries are, and boundaries are my new favorite thing to explore and define (thanks therapy!)

All the love and gratitude. I encourage you to explore the things that make you feel more alive as well.

Thanks for riding with me!

🙏💗✌️

Day 14 - 🌄😳🫠 This is your brain on nature …

Some days it feels like you truly do possess the power to manifest things. (Both good and not so good.) I spot a small sign for yoga on my way to get gas. I show up and offers an amazing restorative, grounding practice (my current fave) and speaks all the words I can’t find right now into existence.

I head out onto Rte 12 with high expectations from the days before — only to be exceded again & again.

As manifestation works both ways, ruminating about tire issues turns into a real thing when my front tire decides to fully deflate and no longer hold air. I try some knee jerk solutions. Troubleshoot. Take a deep breath. Step back. Realize that I have the parts I need and am very luckily located at a gas station that has an air hose at the pump I am parked at. 🙌

Back on the road I continue to have my mind blown. I reach my destination and head into Bryce Canyon National Park.

My eyeballs don’t know how to compute what I’m seeing. I can’t find words. I sit to meditate for the first time since stating this trip (which I hate to admit, but that’s how it goes).

My heart is full. My head is scrambled. I’m tired, but don’t want this day to end because that means there are only 2 days left for me on the road.

Day 8 -🌦️⚙️🥰 Surprise!

I’ve given up “planning” at this point, but I still hold space for hope. Today my big dream (feels less jinx-y to say it that way) was to lay down some miles and get to Lakewood, CO a day early so that I could wake up on my birthday with my family.

Mother Nature and I were dance partners once again, although this time she spared me the heat and instead threw threatening, and very real, thunderstorms at me all the way from Oklahoma, into New Mexico, and up through Colorado.

It was a day of intense focus and short pit stops, but I MADE IT. My family was there to welcome me in with cheers and a few tears. I wouldn’t have had it any other way 🥰🥹💗