In Love in an Instant

There is currency from four countries in my coin purse right now, I have to ask someone or check my phone if I want to know what day/date/time it is, and I have travelled over 4,000 km in less than a week. I’m trying to learn how to say “hello,” “how are you” and “thank you” in every language along the way, but have half-way given up. And I cannot make myself feel calm inside, like I am allowed to relax, and just breathe deeply in the place where I am. It’s a blessing and a curse.

Currently, I’m in Split, Croatia. I will be here for less than 24 hours, and then four of us will head off in our rental (car), hammocks and a tent in tow, and have ourselves an amazing Croatian adventure. I already love this country.

I came by bus from Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, because it was raining pretty heavily there, and I didn’t want to stand on the side of the road with a cardboard sign for an undetermined amount of time. Also, it was such a cheap ticket, costing me just 15 euros and four or five perfectly spent hours. I know it sounds like a long time to be on a bus, but when a chunk of it is through the amazing Bosnian and Croatian forests, and then the majority along the absolutely incredible Southern Croatian coast, there are relatively no things to complain about.

I kept wondering what Croatia must have been like before joining the Union (European), and trying to decide if it was better or worse for the country and her people. But in the end, I decided to just love the heck out of it as it is, and embrace all its beauty no matter what. I like the choice I’ve made, and haven’t stopped smiling and/or laughing (usually alone) for the last four hours. Life is good.

Tomorrow begins a completely unorganized adventure, and I am so excited about it! We have about six days to explore freely around Croatia, and zero idea of what route we’ll take. It feels so liberating.

I’m almost certain I won’t be blogging during the next days, but will try my best to get something up. Though Pim, Jelle and I are professionals at living 100% in the moment when we’re together, so I might not take such a break from it, especially since it might be the farewell adventure to “adios” I’ve been dreading.

It’s such a confusing thing, really, to be so excited for something, but also not want it to start, because you know when it starts, it’ll also have to end, and this is not an end I want to meet. I love these relationships as they are now so, so, so much, and do not want to come to grips with the likely chance they will change. But, that is getting too far ahead of myself, and time travel of this sort is only detrimental. So I shall stop, breath in gratitude for all the surrounds and fills me, and continue on with my happy, love-filled adventures.

This really is the start of The Adventure that Never Ends. From here, I go home, but that is just preparation for years of not knowing the date or time, flowing with the voice of the Holy Spirit inside me, and roaming all over the globe, doing volunteer work and learning new things till I tire out and find my long-term abode and/or die! Wee!

I hope you’ll all stick around for these adventures with me, a GoPro will be added to my line up soon, and then I can show you better what we’re experiencing here together! And as always, please pray for my safety, and my strength to be renewed with each waking day. Thank you so much, family, I LOVE YOU!

Blessings, Love, Light & Wonder to all!

-Allie-Sun <3