....BOO!!!!!!!
made ya look.
well fuck, its been awhile! first of all, i'm alive! second of all, how the hell is everybody?!?!
i have no idea how i can possibly give a proper update without rambling on for approximately a thousand years...so i'm just going to roll off a recap of everything thats been going on since we last spoke.
after i left portland i made my way to san francisco where i met up with rexarenn for a jolly day of food and hilarity and rex vs rexx and exploration!
that night i stayed in a hostel which was a nice change from sleeping in bus seats.
the next morning i woke up super early because i finally was getting to see my boyfriend who has been on tour while i've been scampering the country.
needless to say, that entire day was quite fabulous
then i went to gifts from enola's show that night at bottom of the hill
the next day i got really high and wandered san fran all day. ate pho and gathered my thoughts in my journal in a little vietnamese cafe, visited all the beat sites of kerouac, ginsberg, and the like. ate donuts. it was quite nice.
then i scampered off to san diego where i spent the day at mission beach, dipped my toes in pacific waters for the first time (and it was fucking COLD AS FUCK) AND THEN WENT TO THE INFAMOUS IN N OUT BURGER FOR THE FIRST TIME AND JIZZED MY PANTS CONTINUOUSLY WHILE CONSUMING THE DOUBLE DOUBLE AND A CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE.
(obviously i spent far too much money on food the first half of my trip, but i don't give a fuck because food rocks and i enjoy being a skinny lardass to the max, but you all know that)
then i was feeling like i needed a dose of insanity so i took the bus to vegas and arrived at 4:30 in the morning. by 4:47 i was consuming a bourbon and coke, completely in love with the sparkly lights and the fact that i could drink at this hour, it was cheap as shit, and i could at last smoke in a goddamn bar! well by 6:30 i was properly hammered so i sobered up at mcdonalds, wrote in my journal, and wandered around in the gloriously scorching vegas heat until 8 a.m. played one dollar on a slot machine because fuck, i was in vegas, then decided i would only get in trouble if i stayed longer without supervision so i got on the bus again having been officially sober, drunk, and sober again in 4 hours all before 9 in the morning...and went to LA!
in LA i stayed with scarletletterman and his wife and they are cool as hell and super awesome!! i was there for a couple of days checking out the sights and generally having a blast. totally fell in love with venice beach!
then i went back to san fran because the first time i didnt get to check out haight ashbury and well, duh, i have to. so i trecked a good 4 miles there and back from the bus station. it was cold. but i enjoyed myself.
then i met up with rexarenn again and laughed at sea lions and things.
i then went to seattle and spent all day at pike market and paid ten dollars to shower at a freaking ymca but it was so worth it. seattle was pretty fabulous and i would like to go back.
that evening i was feeling random and also realizing i was extremely broke had to return to the east coast to pick up my last paycheck from osaka (i worked? what? feels like years ago). but like i said, i was feeling random so i decided to spontaneously pop up in salt lake city, utah for one of the boy's shows where i would never be suspected.
lucky choice, for on the busride there i sat next to an uber cool kid who immediately pulls out a gigantic zip lock full of dank pot brownies. I LOVE THE WEST COAST. so for the 20 hour ride we munched on brownies, remained high as fuck, talked about cool stuff, and at the end my surprise was a grand success and i got to see the boy and was a happy happy rexx.
theeennnn time to carry on to the east coast for some familiar faces and to reload my bank account. well, i wouldnt really consider it loading but...making it not zero.
three days later i arrived in dubois, pa and had a funny little small town weekend with one of my former roommates/great friend.
then hopped the bus and now i'm back in virginia for the night to claim my check, stock up on groceries so i dont spend all my god damn money on food this go around. and then leave again. virginia...ew.
i do miss harrisonburg but chester/richmond brings the taste of vomit to my mouth.
dude...i have written so much in the past month and taken so many photos and been having the most incredible time of my life ever and i have no idea how to do it justice. at the end i will share my journal a bit and i'll put a few photos in here for you but wow. i am utterly speechless. i have found now that living "normally" for a day is the max i can do. being on the go. living at random. doing everything on a whim. meeting so many crazy and beautiful people of every imaginable type day in and day out and finding the glory in relating to those you never thought you could because really, we can all relate in some way. i've opened my heart and mind more than i ever thought possible because i thought i already had done so fully. but you can never open them wide enough for life is forever stretching and providing new amazements and things so uniquely beautiful in new and different ways.
there aren't words. there really arent. i can't stop repeating this.
also on this journey i've come to new levels of strength within myself. i'm completely in love for the first time in my life and at the same time feel more independent than ever and i think thats part of what makes this relationship so fucking amazingl. i can't explain in words how happy i am and how unbelievable it still is to me how all of this came out of nowhere so unexpectedly and ever since january life has been flying by with no second short of completely blowing my mind in the best way possible.
i feel like this entire year i've really set my spirit free and this journey is turning out better than i ever thought it could. i've reached new heights of independence, confidence, thinking, trying, experiencing, minimalism, being, loving, just so so so so many things. and being able to have this incredible revelation of self and feel totally set with who i am and what i'm doing and living fully for me finally taking every risk and doing exactly what i want (because why should anyone do anything different? this life is yours and noone elses) and also have an amazing relationship at the same time is something i never thought was possible.
ah.
no words, no words. everything is juuuust damn beautiful.
i'm going to leave you now with a few pictures.
i hope you have been doing nothing short of fabulous.
i promise to share some of my journaling eventually but i've grown so far detached from internet use that i have no desire to be on here any longer than humanly possible. but i wanted to check in.
i love you babies.
also, i can't tell you how many people that i've met along the way that have said to me that "they wish they could just drop everything and do what i'm doing"....people...YOU CAN. how am i any more capable than anyone else? i certainly know most others are far more financially ready. but i went into this with barely any money and i've been completely fine. life paves way for itself. just have faith in the flow of things. and fear nothing. not even traveling this country all by your self being just a tiny speck floating on a bus across america day after day and exploring foreign lands. just fucking believe in yourself. do things. see things! freeeeee your soul!!!
seriously....
it will change your life.
<3 Rexx
me and zepp101 in jerz!
me with what i've been wearing every day for a month and my little backpack, literally the only thing i'm carrying. and it feels superb.
the slayer burger! fucking intense. at kumas corner in chicago. and an IPA of course!!!!!
]
in n out! omggg
mission beach in san diego
being a dorkus butt in san fran. photo by [rexarenn] (ok i'm getting out of order. kill me)
i was somewhere around barstow...when the fact that i was literally going to vegas at 4 in the morning by myself at total random began to set in...as well as insanity due to lack of sleep
roaming the lands of the usa on foot with my little backpack. given up on makeup and hair straighteners and all things of that nature.
me and toxic on a rainy day in portland haha
and um, riding things. in chinatown.
and i'm sick of uploading stuff but theres about 600 photos so far where those came from. i'll make an album eventually. for now i'm going to go get my check. deposit that shit. and hit the fucking road again! ciao.
made ya look.
well fuck, its been awhile! first of all, i'm alive! second of all, how the hell is everybody?!?!
i have no idea how i can possibly give a proper update without rambling on for approximately a thousand years...so i'm just going to roll off a recap of everything thats been going on since we last spoke.
after i left portland i made my way to san francisco where i met up with rexarenn for a jolly day of food and hilarity and rex vs rexx and exploration!
that night i stayed in a hostel which was a nice change from sleeping in bus seats.
the next morning i woke up super early because i finally was getting to see my boyfriend who has been on tour while i've been scampering the country.
needless to say, that entire day was quite fabulous
then i went to gifts from enola's show that night at bottom of the hill
the next day i got really high and wandered san fran all day. ate pho and gathered my thoughts in my journal in a little vietnamese cafe, visited all the beat sites of kerouac, ginsberg, and the like. ate donuts. it was quite nice.
then i scampered off to san diego where i spent the day at mission beach, dipped my toes in pacific waters for the first time (and it was fucking COLD AS FUCK) AND THEN WENT TO THE INFAMOUS IN N OUT BURGER FOR THE FIRST TIME AND JIZZED MY PANTS CONTINUOUSLY WHILE CONSUMING THE DOUBLE DOUBLE AND A CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE.
(obviously i spent far too much money on food the first half of my trip, but i don't give a fuck because food rocks and i enjoy being a skinny lardass to the max, but you all know that)
then i was feeling like i needed a dose of insanity so i took the bus to vegas and arrived at 4:30 in the morning. by 4:47 i was consuming a bourbon and coke, completely in love with the sparkly lights and the fact that i could drink at this hour, it was cheap as shit, and i could at last smoke in a goddamn bar! well by 6:30 i was properly hammered so i sobered up at mcdonalds, wrote in my journal, and wandered around in the gloriously scorching vegas heat until 8 a.m. played one dollar on a slot machine because fuck, i was in vegas, then decided i would only get in trouble if i stayed longer without supervision so i got on the bus again having been officially sober, drunk, and sober again in 4 hours all before 9 in the morning...and went to LA!
in LA i stayed with scarletletterman and his wife and they are cool as hell and super awesome!! i was there for a couple of days checking out the sights and generally having a blast. totally fell in love with venice beach!
then i went back to san fran because the first time i didnt get to check out haight ashbury and well, duh, i have to. so i trecked a good 4 miles there and back from the bus station. it was cold. but i enjoyed myself.
then i met up with rexarenn again and laughed at sea lions and things.
i then went to seattle and spent all day at pike market and paid ten dollars to shower at a freaking ymca but it was so worth it. seattle was pretty fabulous and i would like to go back.
that evening i was feeling random and also realizing i was extremely broke had to return to the east coast to pick up my last paycheck from osaka (i worked? what? feels like years ago). but like i said, i was feeling random so i decided to spontaneously pop up in salt lake city, utah for one of the boy's shows where i would never be suspected.
lucky choice, for on the busride there i sat next to an uber cool kid who immediately pulls out a gigantic zip lock full of dank pot brownies. I LOVE THE WEST COAST. so for the 20 hour ride we munched on brownies, remained high as fuck, talked about cool stuff, and at the end my surprise was a grand success and i got to see the boy and was a happy happy rexx.
theeennnn time to carry on to the east coast for some familiar faces and to reload my bank account. well, i wouldnt really consider it loading but...making it not zero.
three days later i arrived in dubois, pa and had a funny little small town weekend with one of my former roommates/great friend.
then hopped the bus and now i'm back in virginia for the night to claim my check, stock up on groceries so i dont spend all my god damn money on food this go around. and then leave again. virginia...ew.
i do miss harrisonburg but chester/richmond brings the taste of vomit to my mouth.
dude...i have written so much in the past month and taken so many photos and been having the most incredible time of my life ever and i have no idea how to do it justice. at the end i will share my journal a bit and i'll put a few photos in here for you but wow. i am utterly speechless. i have found now that living "normally" for a day is the max i can do. being on the go. living at random. doing everything on a whim. meeting so many crazy and beautiful people of every imaginable type day in and day out and finding the glory in relating to those you never thought you could because really, we can all relate in some way. i've opened my heart and mind more than i ever thought possible because i thought i already had done so fully. but you can never open them wide enough for life is forever stretching and providing new amazements and things so uniquely beautiful in new and different ways.
there aren't words. there really arent. i can't stop repeating this.
also on this journey i've come to new levels of strength within myself. i'm completely in love for the first time in my life and at the same time feel more independent than ever and i think thats part of what makes this relationship so fucking amazingl. i can't explain in words how happy i am and how unbelievable it still is to me how all of this came out of nowhere so unexpectedly and ever since january life has been flying by with no second short of completely blowing my mind in the best way possible.
i feel like this entire year i've really set my spirit free and this journey is turning out better than i ever thought it could. i've reached new heights of independence, confidence, thinking, trying, experiencing, minimalism, being, loving, just so so so so many things. and being able to have this incredible revelation of self and feel totally set with who i am and what i'm doing and living fully for me finally taking every risk and doing exactly what i want (because why should anyone do anything different? this life is yours and noone elses) and also have an amazing relationship at the same time is something i never thought was possible.
ah.
no words, no words. everything is juuuust damn beautiful.
i'm going to leave you now with a few pictures.
i hope you have been doing nothing short of fabulous.
i promise to share some of my journaling eventually but i've grown so far detached from internet use that i have no desire to be on here any longer than humanly possible. but i wanted to check in.
i love you babies.
also, i can't tell you how many people that i've met along the way that have said to me that "they wish they could just drop everything and do what i'm doing"....people...YOU CAN. how am i any more capable than anyone else? i certainly know most others are far more financially ready. but i went into this with barely any money and i've been completely fine. life paves way for itself. just have faith in the flow of things. and fear nothing. not even traveling this country all by your self being just a tiny speck floating on a bus across america day after day and exploring foreign lands. just fucking believe in yourself. do things. see things! freeeeee your soul!!!
seriously....
it will change your life.
<3 Rexx
me and zepp101 in jerz!
me with what i've been wearing every day for a month and my little backpack, literally the only thing i'm carrying. and it feels superb.
the slayer burger! fucking intense. at kumas corner in chicago. and an IPA of course!!!!!
]
in n out! omggg
mission beach in san diego
being a dorkus butt in san fran. photo by [rexarenn] (ok i'm getting out of order. kill me)
i was somewhere around barstow...when the fact that i was literally going to vegas at 4 in the morning by myself at total random began to set in...as well as insanity due to lack of sleep
roaming the lands of the usa on foot with my little backpack. given up on makeup and hair straighteners and all things of that nature.
me and toxic on a rainy day in portland haha
and um, riding things. in chinatown.
and i'm sick of uploading stuff but theres about 600 photos so far where those came from. i'll make an album eventually. for now i'm going to go get my check. deposit that shit. and hit the fucking road again! ciao.
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acacia:
I wish we had an In-N-Out around here. That burger looks so damn good, mmmmm.
r3x:
btw, I hope you didn't get a Chinese curse from riding the dog. haha