Nomad With a Home



One of my original intents in travel nursing was to find a place I'd like to call home; an end point to this journey. What I'm finding is:

1. a desire to go as many place as possible, for as long as possible.
2. I've collected homes through the years.

Keep going, and going, and going.
In saying yes to one assignment Florida, I've created the momentum to keep saying yes, and to adventures I hadn't originally considered.... like, Alaska What?! Just in cause you haven't picked up on this yet, I no longer desire to permanently live in a place where I cringe being outside from November through March (i.e. the northeast US). But could I enjoy a thirteen week stint in Alaska in the spring? Bask in the beauty of the mountains and lakes? I think so!

I can't wait to see where else I choose to go!

Serial homesteader.
Home = contentment, right? The place where you can walk around looking like a hot mess and no one will judge you (only sneak SnapChats of you when you're not looking). The place where you feel safe.

Well, apparently, it's not always only a place. It's you.

I've marveled at how, during medical volunteer trips, I can feel at home in a foreign country with a language barrier among complete strangers. Or how I've felt some of the warm, fuzzy feelings of home at different points in my life, even if the "place" was wrong (i.e. early part of college, Philadelphia, NJ).

I've felt content and safe in different parts of the globe and phases of life even if everything wasn't perfect because my home is me: my experiences, the choices I make, the people I love, the work I enjoy. I'm learning what my preferences would be for a permanent location: warm, close to a shoreline, diverse. But I don't have to feel "homeless" while I travel. If I don't choose to settle down for a long time, that's okay. Home sweet home will be wherever I go.

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I realize there's a good chance none of this makes sense. Stay tuned while I figure out  how to more precisely explain it. Or write me off as crazy. I'm okay with either ;)