New Year

So this is the new year. Whenever I say that I instantly want to finish the Death Cab lyric, “..and I don’t feel any different.” Which is true. I don’t. And that’s why I’m here. Sitting at the kitchen counter and willing my fingers to move across the keyboard.

I’ve been looking for motive. As I approach 24 this year, I feel a bit lost. I’ve almost been tempted to use that ridiculous phrase “Quarter-Life Crisis” (which if you google, is hilarious in itself.) I’ve been out of college over a year, in an odd seasonal rotation of being employed and promised employment. Part is spent living out on an island in the Puget Sound where I work, the other spent crashing in my family home. I don’t have many complaints, it’s been grand, but I’m hitting a wall. I’m one of those twenty-somethings without much of a life plan to go on nor bright employment prospect at the moment..
… Which is how LittleBurroBackpacker comes into play.  

There is one undying thing I love, one solid found in chaos: the outdoors. I love hiking and camping and backpacking and trees and mud and rain and mountains and desert and backpack-weary shoulders. And I don’t engage in any of those things nearly enough, or nearly as much as I know I want to. LBB is my motivation. To engage myself. To engage others. I’m hoping to set tangible goals as well as to push myself with LBB being the driving force and documentation of either how well or how poorly I’m doing. Some good ol’ tangible accountability as I can either stare at a blank blog page or one that will be full of places traveled, miles logged and memories made and if all goes right, a resource for others.

This is really my first grown-up foray into this whole deal of blogging. We’ll see how it progresses, but I’m thinking good thoughts and putting fingers to the keyboard, so it’s a start.

Happy 2013 my friends, and here’s to much more content to follow,

LBB

Here's to 2013, let the good times roll.