Crawling on Back~ Finally home!

Well, here I am; at last, in Vancouver. My fiancé and I are in a hotel room tonight and will hopefully have a place to live tomorrow- which means job hunting will then be underway and so starts my crazy dream of pursuing my full-time novel writing.

It's been a great trip. All in all, we have travelled over 4,000 kilometres together and we're not sick of each other yet, which must be a good sign. I love road trips and the brilliant stories that are told when it's all said and done. The curiosity of discovering a new place means my muses just blossom into life and something sparks the writing bug in me. Vancouver does that. As we crossed the Alberta-British Columbia border, Tom Petty's song "Keep Crawling Back to You" was playing on the stereo. It's true- I always do end up crawling back to this province, this place where I feel so at home. There's something incredibly inspirational about feeling like you're finally home, where you belong and where you have always wanted to be. I've waited four years to be here again and I am ecstatic to start this new life and new story.

Places have stories. That's the joy I find out of road trips. Finding the stories and even making the stories with the people around you. The inside jokes that emerge from spending all that time with one person, the way you're off-the-wall for a while even after the trip ends. Today, standing in a parking lot in North Vancouver with my fiancé, we were almost sad the trip was over because we had so much fun. This, after sitting outside of a Tim Horton's near Penticton at almost midnight wondering when  the road would end, coffee in hand as we sat on the sidewalk and watched the world pass by. I've always a bit of gypsy blood in me. I could live on the road if money and time permitted and still feel the same relief of coming home to the west coast.

Long story short, this is a new beginning; that "something more" I've been looking for all this time and it couldn't feel any better right now. I can't wait to see where my writing journey goes in this amazing city so full of astounding creativity and diversity.

With that said, my fiancé is already fast asleep and the road has taken its toll on the both of us. Off to bed andtomorrow starts a great new life!

Tom Petty- "Keep Crawling Back to You"

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