This past weekend, Brian and I drove out to Rapid City, SD and
started a new "adventure". We bought a pick-up camper!!!! We did some
touring through the Black Hills and Custer State Park. Then settled in
for the night at by the Pactola Reservoir and spent our first night
camping (in our camper).
As we drove up to Pactola, I
kept having flashbacks to the first time I drove past this lake. It
would've been spring of 2009 -- when I was moving from
Washington State to Iowa. I started the long drive in the Pacific Northwest,
picked up my cousin Hannah in Seattle and the two of us drove my packed-down little Corolla to the Heartland. Along the way, we decided to jump
off I-90 and hit up Mt Rushmore. As we ventured down our little detour,
I remember coming across this beautiful lake and thinking "I want to
come back and camp here someday".
MARCH 2009
When Brian and I
drove up to Pactola, I realized that THIS was the lake I saw 6 years ago
with Hannah!!!! I had not remembered the name at all.... but the
setting was unmistakable. My heart was captured by the beauty of the
lake and scenery just as much this time as it was the first time.
Both
experiences seem to be a launch point of sorts. When I was moving to
Iowa, I wouldn't have dreamed it would take me 6 YEARS to get back to
that lake. And 6 years ago, I wouldn't have imagined I'd be coming back
with a HUSBAND and our very own pick-up CAMPER! This weekend continued
to affirm me that DREAMS DO COME TRUE. They don't always come in the order
we think they should or as fast as we'd like them sometimes; but they
DO happen. Even dreams that you almost forgot about and realized in the
moment that it's become a reality.
MAY 2015
I have a long
list of places I'd like to take our little camper. If I could, I'd drop
everything right now and go travel... but alas, I know the timing is
not quite right. It will happen one place at a time and maybe one day it
will happen for a chunk of time. I know I will find myself on future
adventures and probably have some more unexpected dreams come true along the way. Looking forward to more #oordtadventures in the days to come.
