Yet another change of plans...

So, Thailand is out.  It's not even a thought in my mind right now.  I had decided to say FUCK IT and just figure it out, but I do not have the money to run away right now to another part of the world right now, and honestly right now I don't particularly have the desire to be in a foreign place like that.  Lately my life has been a complete rollercoaster of good and bad, and I want to be around people I love and people who love me more than I want to be alone in a country where I don't speak the language.

Thailand is definitely a place I want to go.  I want to do everything there.  And I will.  Hopefully in about a year's time. Gives me time to save and plan.

In the meantime, I'm tackling North America.  I'm heading out Sunday night for about ten days on the east coast of Canada, mostly in Halifax.  I am so excited for this for so many reasons.  I've never been to the east coast.  It's been too long since I've taken off from here.  I'm travelling with the new man in my life who I'm pretty crazy about.  And, unlike my last few trips where money flowed pretty easily and I was able to fly/bus to most places I wanted to get to, this trip I will be relying on my thumbs, my ability to run and jump, and the kindness of strangers to get me by.  And that last part is what makes me most excited.  I find, when you don't have money, you get to see parts of places you would easily gloss over otherwise.  And just heading out there and hopping or hitching to get where we're going will be so...freeing.  And I need that right now.

From here, it would be nice to be able to afford to run away somewhere warm again like I did THREE times last winter, but I can't see it happening this year.  But hopefully, over the winter I will learn to drive, and in the spring I'd love to buy a vehicle and roadtrip around North America.  There are so many places in Canada and the US that I could never see myself making a trip to go to exclusively, but if I can just drive on into places like Tuscon or Houston for a night or two before heading out...ugh.  That sounds like heaven.