Welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful

life with doses of tranquility.

This is episode 544.

I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this medium since 2005.

Today, I'm connecting with you from Portland, Oregon, and my guest is my partner to Mooney,

and we're chatting about our journey, spending a few weeks on the road with two pugs, one dropped at camp grandparents,

and our adventures so far. So delighted to be here with you.

I'm delighted to be here, too. We're in Portland, Oregon, Rift City, the Rose City.

What does Rips City mean? It's a basketball thing.

Oh, that's why I had no idea what you were

talking about. I'm like, what are you saying? Pour one out for the trailblazers. They just got

eliminated. Oh, great. I guess. I don't know. So, yeah, so this journey, it's kind of funny

because it seems like, oh, it just happened, meaning we just kind of sprung it on.

And it kind of did.

So once we were vaccinated, we were like, you know, it would have been fun to go somewhere and spend like a month working from afar.

But of course, we never felt safe doing that during the pandemic.

So once we got vaccinated, it's like it all

came together quite quickly, don't you think? Yeah. The origin story of this was I, as soon as I,

and this is the longer version, Kimberly knows how obsessed I was with scheduling my vaccination shot.

There was a spreadsheet. There was color coding. It was it

thing. But after I got it booked, I started writing down the things that I wanted to do

after I was vaccinated. And it was just this whole list of things that when you combine a bunch

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