Albuquerque

I made it to Albuquerque NM, I am really tired last drive was pretty long and tomorrow I wan to make it to Kingman, Arizona to put me closer to the border with California, that way I will have more time to visit the Mohave and maybe stay one night there. Today, the ride was pretty good, driving with a shining sun and blue skies can really help me to keep going.
I fond out that making videos, pictures and thinking how to put this blog together really helps me to kepp me bust.
In Albuquerque I treat myself with a nice seafood dinner in a close by restaurant, I had Shrimps Veracruz and a couple of Bohemia. Now I am really ready for bed.

Leaving St Louis

In my room OK

Change of plans

Life is always making you to change, adapt or just to say fuck it!!!. On my way to Tulsa I realized that the person that I was to stay with ( a friend of a friend) could not longer host me. So I had to keep driving to Oklahoma city.
I hate driving at night for several reasons, one of them is that like my mom I always like to think in the worse case scenario and the other is that being from Venezuela driving in a Highway at night is a instant trigger for traumatic stress disorder, since we had seen all kind of events in that setting.

The entrance to my room #141

Pretty decent he?

Tomorrow I will head to Albuquerque, New Mexico and from there Arizona.

Wild Mushrooms Risotto

My stay in St Louis was great!! I even had the time to make a decent wild mushrooms rissotto in my friends house. Today I really felt the loneliness of the road, is pretty hard to keep your mind busy and I feel that I am running out of self reflection topics.

Sweet delay

One of the things that stress us out is being delayed, we had created this false sense that we MUST be somewhere at some specific time. The truth is, that the only place you have to be is exactly where you are in that specific moment.
I woke up in St. Louis in my friends Vanessa and Max house, I had planned to start driving three hours ago, but Vane just made pumpkin pancakes, with sausages and cheese.... How can you not accept this treat and sweet delay??
I will get to the road in the perfect moment, whenever it is.

KY to MO drive, first stage of the trip

(ESPANOL) Manejando desde KY a Missouri

From Kentucky to St Louis

A big cross and a big truck

Finally I made it to start driving, it was very hard to leave my neighborhood specially with all those parties and great feelings and good wishes. I must say I had been blessed with good friends.
The drive to St. Louis was pretty smooth, even if all may car was packed with all my belongings. I was concerned of iced roads but, lucky me, the weather had been improving exponentially since last Friday.

Entering St. Louis

Once I got to St. Louis I went straight to my friend Vanessa lab, she works in the Washington University School of Medicine in the genomic center, a pretty impressive institution that was involved, among other exiting projects, with the initial human genome sequencing.
We spent part of the night in the lab, she is learning FACS (cell sorting) a very exciting immunological technique and I got to peak a little. We took a break to go to the SCHLAFLY tap room for beers and dinner and back to the lab.

My friend Vanessa rocking after working late in her lab 

Today we are having a short session in the lab and then some Yoga and maybe some walking around St. Louis.
Hopefully this trip will keep getting better and better and you, the reader enjoy it as well.

Getting ready

Many people wonder what it is to get ready.

Well, the truth is that we really don't know. Since when we have to get ready for something really big we realize that we never were ready for it.

Somebody close to you is dying?

You never were ready for it, and when it finally happens I can assure you, that you will feel really not ready for it.

Changes in life happens, just like shit, and is definitely not getting ready what helps us to overcome them, enjoy and make the best out of it.

Two years ago, give it or take, I moved from my country of birth (Venezuela) to my adoptive country (Italy) an then to another adoptive country (United States of America). Even if I always knew that i wanted to leave Venezuela and I liked to think that I was ready to do it, I found myself in situations that I was never ready for and that for some people would had been very stressful.

Now I am about to start another move, from Northern Kentucky to Corvallis, Oregon and I will driving across the United States, for almost 3,500 miles.

I had been packing for a week, and guess what?

There is a winter storm all across the area that I am going to be driving trough and a lot of snow/ice alerts.

I had been changing my route further South every two days.

So here I am, ready but not ready, in my home, after having already said almost all the goodbyes, trying to figure when and where to start driving.

I will, possibly, start driving tomorrow and I will take you with me in my trip on the roads of the United Sates.