Blue Jeans and New Beginnings

Hey, everyone out there,

I am Annie. I am a photojournalist student at UCM in Warrensburg, Missouri. I am a married, graduated parent of three grown kids and two grandaughters, those would be my angels. Jeff, that would be my husband who is a survivor. Yes, a survivor of the explosion of everything that ever had "Corporate" attatched to it and it's refugee's of the fired, and layed off for an undetermined amount of time who are scratching and clawing at the job market to make a living. That description would be for me too. That is why I am a college student at forty-two. Yeah and Whoopie and I guess what the kids are saying "It's on like Donkey Kong".???
So....

Rolling across America's highways. This is cool and it makes Jeff happy.
November 27, 2009 and we are on our way from Missouri to Michigan to go look at a truck. We are just going to see the truck and see the set-up and it was the closest one we could find. The truck was beautiful. Everything I had ever dreamed of having in a truck. It lacked the necessities we needed as in axels and a generator and a decent price to go with it. So this truck is not happening. But, we now know exactly what we are looking for. It is out there, have to have faith in the balance of the joys and struggles that the good times are bound to come.


This trip is also unusual because for the first time in a long time we were going on a very long road trip with no load to be responsible for. We had no trailer attached to our buts and had quite a bit of freedom as to the speed we got to drive, being considered a four wheeler in a dually, and where we could get in and out of. Where we could stop, not having to stop at weigh stations, it was great. I will have to admit that there is a mattress in the back seat with sheets and a comforter. It is tight, but many times, this is how was have had to live, making a living, living in the dually, hanging in there from load to load. Like gypsies. I don't want to do that, I want to have the comforts that can make this idea of living on the road an enjoyable and exciting journey in our lives.

For us the idea of being owner-operators had always been just so far out of reach for us. That is what Jeff loves to do, he loves to drive. But this is a new season in our lives. Our children have grown and are moving on with their own lives. We feel like we are being reborn again into life as a single couple that has built a lot of character over the years and has never had a chance to explore how that person fits in with society and even the idea of who we are, who have we become. We feel so free and are surprisingly going through another puberty again on a completely different level of becoming, "this age", sexually, physically; facing some of our fears, ready to find out what our dreams are and ready to face them head on. Don't just dream it, work towards making them a reality.



Jeff wants to be able to drive. To make a living driving all over the country and to see other countries on this globe. He wants to be able to spread his wings and fly without anything tying him down, restricting him, except my leash of course. And, I want to see him like that, like the man he wants to be, that gives me the experience of having the best of who he was meant to be.



I will succeed as a photojournalist, specializing in the field of ecology and documenting on regeneration studies of endangered species. You know, as in documenting those who are involved in the process of actually making it happen. I want to be out in the field with the animals and seeing them in their own environments and the possibility of saving some of them from the intrusion of human life moving into and destroying their environments. I want to document and report on the restoration process of many of our natural environments, the habitants that are supposed to naturally thrive there to help restore the ecosystem of these areas that can be restored.

Till then, this is what I am going to do. Take any of you along who want to find out what would happen if you just "Did It." Just jump out there and chase a dream.