The next chapter

On Sunday 10/20, I say goodbye to Colorado. I have lived here my entire life, 46 years. To be honest, outside of a couple awesome people, I’m not going to miss it. I’m really looking forward to starting my new life in Portland, Oregon. Oddly enough, I’m going to be in downtown Portland. The thing is, despite my challenges, I need people in my life. I need to be able to be social. It’s just something that I’m not comfortable with here being a not very well-passing trans woman. I tried working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and initially enjoyed…

And the winner is…

Moving into an apartment in Portland, Oregon at the end of the month. In a very queer part of town (considering the entire town is queer), in the Pearl District near the Willamette river. Given everything, I just need a fixed destination and stability for a while. Not ruling out any of my other possible paths for the future, but for now… Now I just need someone to buy this damn house.

Van Life Imminent

Working with a realtor and will put the house on the market in a couple weeks. Getting my things moved into storage and any final tweaks on the van before I move into full time van life for a bit and head to Oregon for the fall and winter. I already started looking at small properties in the Oregon and Washington area, ideally closer to the coast to get more rain than snow in the winters. Given the state of everything I have decided just to get out of Colorado permanently so not considering any land here. Going to head…

Slight Change

After doing a full trip with my cat in 90 degree plus weather, combined with my chronic pain, and the ambient terror I have at the moment (causing never ending meltdowns), I’m shifting direction just a little bit. As much effort as I had put into the van to be a perfect space, it’s always going to be a minivan and I just don’t think I can live in just the van for any extended period. They have sub 20′ campers for around $25k that are fairly light that I should be able to pull with my van. Eg. –…

Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud… Thinking about my original plan and although I really thought I wanted to get out of Colorado, there is certainly a comfort level here that is appealing when your brain is basically on fire and you are overwhelmed. Most of my stress being that in a week, when the ex moves to Tulsa, I am completely on my own to clean out whats left the house, deal with getting my own stuff to my storage unit, fix it, and get it sold. I temporarily belayed some other stress as I was able to get a loan (added…

Winter Park – July 2024

Left my job with CPW as I started having meltdowns and dreading coming into work. Part of it being the physical conditions combined with my health, but a big part being a lot of boaters were just really horrible human beings. Between that, and my health and money issues (instantly $10000 in medical debt as my insurance turned out to be really bad despite being an ACA plan), I decided to disconnect and go up to Winter Park for a few days. On a positive note, I should finally be able to sell the house toward the beginning of September…