To a New Beginning

Well here goes my very first time ever blogging!! I have wanted to do this for a while, but never felt like I had a good reason, well as Shawn and I embark on the newest part of our journey together, I figured this would be the best time to start something like this.

With less that 7 days left in North Carolina, I am half excited and half nervous! We are about to travel across the country on our way to our new duty station Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, Alaska! Since Shawn and I don't have any kids, just two kitties, we decided to take this time to actually drive to AK!! We are stopping off at the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas as well as many other locations along the way.

I find this very exciting because I love to travel and go to new places and do new things you see. I moved around a bit as a kid and after a little while, decided it wasn't too bad of a gig. Every few years, you pack up and basically start over. If it weren't for some of these moves, i would have never met some of the best people I have ever met, and never would have experienced some major life changing/ altering  happenings! I can't wait for a white Christmas! I haven't had snow on Christmas in 13 years! I can't wait to go snow boarding, see the Northern Lights, drink the water! ( I was born and lived in the lower part of AK till I was 12)

At the very same time, I find this very scary! I have never been that far away from my family before, and Fairbanks ( if no one knows) is REALLY COLD! I don't mind the cold, in fact, winter is my favorite season! But I don't know how to drive in ice, or more than a couple inches of snow, at this point in time, we have no place to lay our heads at night (once we get up there) and we own a home in NC which means we have to find someone to rent our home here! I know that in the end, everything will be alright and that Shawn and I are taken care of. It is just a little scary to let go and just be ok with everything that we have no control over.

I hope that putting all these thoughts, fears, and any other emotion that comes along, down on "paper" I am able to relax and just enjoy the journey a little more. I am kind of the type of person that has to have my hands in everything, and there are definitely parts of this move I have NO CONTROL OVER! So here is to my new blob, and my new life! I look forward to sharing it!