the beginning

(a very good place to start)


this past march, i almost bought a moped.

i had just sold my car, and was going to use some of the cash to buy the hottest things on two wheels, a 2007 honda ruckus. unfortunately, i didn't have quite enough cash on hand to get the deal done, and because i've decided to shun debt like the plague (wish i had decided that before i went to college, but that's another story) i had to walk away, empty handed


it was a sad moment


fast forward almost five months later... i just recently returned home after a month and a half in europe on a missions trip. i'm broke, don't have any form of transportation other than my bike and my own two feet, and am trying to figure out where to go from here. despite all that, life's never been better. i'm getting ready to go camping with my family for a week, then they will drop me off in ohio where i have a wedding to be in (thankfully not my own), and some friends to visit. i'll take a bus back, and then start work exactly two weeks from today

my plan is to avoid buying a car for as long as possible. i realize that at some point it may become unavoidable, but for now i quite honestly have no desperate need to buy a fancy form of transportation that, quite frankly, i can't afford right now anyways. work is an nine minute walk, the grocery store is a twelve minute jaunt, and church is a mere forty-five minutes away by foot (all much shorter by bike). and should i need to go further, there's always the local bus service. ideally, i'll be able to find a used honda ruckus sometime within the next couple months, at which point my wanderings will know almost no bounds. but for now, i can be content to bum around portland for a while. i've fed my wanderlust enough as of late to keep it quiet for a little while yet


so here i am. where do i go from here? who knows. i'm trying to keep it simple, focus on one day at a time. and today, i have to pack. and then sleep. tomorrow, i leave for somewhere. what more do i need to know?