On September 13, I head to Portland, Oregon. Lewis and Clark country. Six events. Three days. Plus a day to mimic their footsteps. Explore a new-to-me site or two.
Travel looks glamorous.
It isn’t.
Yes, I love meeting current fans and making new ones. Yes, I adore adding destinations and making memories. Yes, I’m grateful anyone shows up for anything I do.
But I miss MTM.
A bone-crunching, heart-stopping ache.
Yes, I plow through everything and make it look fetching, but I do it while craving my soul.
I’m lucky he supports my crazy dream. Even when I wonder how anyone makes money writing books. Especially when I get another snarky review and cry for an hour or several. He keeps saying I believe when I walk through the valley of author atheism, a place bereft of belief in myself.
So many of you bolster me in ways you don’t know. You cheer and critique; you check on me and say exactly what I needed more often than you realize. In my loneliest moments on the road, when I struggle to keep up with myself and my stuff while being ‘on’ 24/7, you reach out and send me thoughtful messages, funny pictures and tender texts.
It’s my turn to give back to you.
If you’d like to receive a Lewis and Clark postcard from my trip to Portland, please leave a comment today. I’ll reach out to you by e-mail if I don’t have your mailing address. I’d love to spend part of a day at a picnic table, staring at the river Lewis loved to hate, breathing a few expedition molecules and penning notes to you.
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Andra – I’m heading to Portland on Wednesday and returning to Charleston on the 13th! I would have loved running in to you there! Also, thank you for my postcards. I received them yesterday and they’re so beautiful!
That picture is gorgeous. I need to go see that. I have only been to the racetrack in Portland, never any further.
No postcard needed. It will be great to see you.
Portland, Oregon? Where are you going to be? I’m heading to California somewhere in September to watch Sterling do his Team Beefcake competition, and I’m so hoping that it doesn’t coincide with your trip. 🙁 I’d love a postcard Andra, love, love, love!
have a great time, and include me in )
Enjoy your three days and six events, Andra! And take time out for yourself as well!
It’s called work for a reason. Otherwise, they’d just call it vacation. And not pay us. 🙂
Have a wonderful and productive (read: successful) trip to Portland! xoxo nancy
Would love to hear from you!!!! Big hugs!!
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