The Wanderings of Kit (Do you wander or just wonder?)
With my words, I hope to throw some oblique light upon your soul.
By writing this blog I want to inspire you and show you that–

YES—YOU CAN > >

***Change your life at any time to make it more magnificent!
***Live with little money and still have an excellent life.
***Be able to live life getting very little sleep.
***Live ANYWHERE in the world and still make your life a fantastic event!
***See experiences that will add to and make your life better.
***I want to inspire you as to the wonders of the earth.
***Perhaps this is my new “gig”, traveling the world doing the same?
***And, I’m not just, “Kitting Around”.
Design the life YOU want to live, NOW, then live that life!
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***Remember, to read past blog posts, go to kitsummers.com/blog/
***If you are reading this through Facebook, check out my blog on my website.
***If you are not my Facebook friend, yet, please befriend me.
***The freedom I am experiencing in my travels is a marvelous thing.
***Going where I want, when I want and seeing wonderful places and people.
***I will have places to show you and tales to tell.
***I will have secrets to unfold and good news!
I’m glad to take you on my journeys with me!
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Just sent my latest blog, hope you enjoyed the read. It is Friday, I just found out the library is closed on the weekend, what will I do?

Saturday was my seventh day of not eating any solid food, only drank green tea and Bud Light. Really my non-eating did not affect me in the slightest. I kept up my strength, didn’t get hungry and felt great.
Next time for two weeks?

I still feel like I am just, “spending time”, until I die. I think, without having a clear goal in our mind, that is what we do. I want to find a way to inspire the masses to live a better life. So, I guess, right now writing this is my main goal. I hope it is inspiring you. Please let me know.

I am discovering what is truly important to me. Seeing the earth and traveling to new experiences holds the highest place in my mind. If you are retired, if you are financially able, I highly suggest you get on the road like I am and learn new things, it will fulfill your life like nothing else can.

Skulls were for sale at a few vendor stalls, YIKES! 

I am also seeing that love and caring are so very important to this world. Life is not about imagined perfection or triumph, it is about love. Love can be like a sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death. Make your sword of love stronger all the time. The key is to help and love others, it does not matter who spread this love ever bigger and stronger.

Remember, the fulfillment and joy of life come from our encounters with new experiences. I have found no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon. For each day I love finding a new and different sun open before me.

We all have responsibilities, but what is truly important to you?

If you want more out of life, and you are able, lose your inclination for monotonous of how your life might currently be. Examine your life and decide what is truly important to you. I have found that nothing is important, we each make what is truly important to each of us.

I have lived well, lost everything—gone up and gone down.

This roller coaster ride has been a delicious life. If you can, adopt a helter-skelter lifestyle to your own life, you will find joy. I might seem crazy to you, but it can be so fulfilling to really live life. Once you become fully used to such a life you will see it’s full meaning and beauty.

I have not tired of the wilderness, never will, I believe. There are always new things to see and new adventures to aim toward. I go in and out of cities, but always return to where I belong, the wild parts of the earth. I greatly love the beauty and the vagrant life that I lead.

I have been fortunate, I have not had to lead a life of the routine and commonplace that many people are forced to endure. Remember, you can ALWAYS change your life if you so desire! The cost of my traveling life is really very low, and there are hundreds of people who work out of the RV or van to acquire money.

There are many videos on YouTube to show you have to build a van to live in and how to live this life. I am here, always, to help, too.

If you start living this lifestyle, please keep me informed about your progress!

I do not see myself settling down, although, this lifestyle can be lonely; I am glad you are there. I have known too much of the depths of life and what this world has to offer. The freedom I am finding in the lifestyle is truly first-class.

I urge you, if you have a way, try this lifestyle out for yourself.

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Words to inspire you!

1. Accomplish

• “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
  —Muhammad Ali
• “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
  —Abraham Lincoln
• “Here I am . . . wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end—that there is such a thing as death.”
  —Leo Tolstoy

2. Action

• “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
  —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
  —Thomas Jefferson
• “The path to success is to take massive, determined actions.”
  —Tony Robbins

3. Ambition

• “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
  —Bill Bradley
• “Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”
  —Frank Tyger
• “A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
  —Marcus Aurelius

4. Believe

• “Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”
  —David Joseph Schwartz
• “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
  —Roy T. Bennett
• “Believing in yourself is not for you; it’s for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now.”
  —Jaye Miller

5. Clarity

• “Clarity precedes success.”
  —Robin Sharma
• “A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.”
  —Steve Maraboli
• “Clarity affords focus.”
  —Thomas Leonard

6. Challenge

• “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
  —Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”
  —Bette Davis
• “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.”
  —Nadia Comaneci

7. Commitment

• “Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
  —Haile Gebrselassie
• “Commitment is an act, not a word.”
  —Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.”
  —Abraham Lincoln

8. Confidence

• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
  —Helen Keller
• “Self-confidence is the memory of success.”
  —David Storey
• “Without self-confidence, we are as babes in the cradle.”
  —Virginia Woolf

9. Courage

• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
  —Winston Churchill
• “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
  —Maya Angelou
• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
  —Mark Twain

10. Dare

• “Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.”
  —Lester B. Pearson
• “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
  —Theodore Roosevelt
• “Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behind your dreams.”
  —Josh Hinds

11. Determination

• “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
  —Og Mandino
• “A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”
  —Mahatma Gandhi
• “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
  —Mario Andretti

12. Drive

• “You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.”
  —Sabrina Bryan
• “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.”
  —Tommy Hilfiger
• “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
  —Jack Welch

13. Envision

• “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
  —Arnold Schwarzenegger
• “Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
  —Dorthea Brande
• “I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.”
  —Lady Gaga

14. Excellence

• “Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.”
  —Ralph Marston
• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
  —Aristotle
• “Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”
  —Abdul Kalam

15. Focus

• “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
  —Aristotle
• “I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”
  —Zig Ziglar
• “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”
  —Ralph Marston

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MY DAILY JOTTINGS >>

1/11/12—Started eating again this morning, starting with fruit; it’s been a week, you know, I did not eat anything for a full week, only drank green tea and Bud-light. I never did get hunger pangs, I could have kept it up for a longer time, perhaps next time?

The library was closed today. With no one around I set up and jumped in my shower how I always do – yes, a naked Kit outside the van. It felt great to be clean. I always make sure no one can peek.

Went walking around Quartzsite, many vendors already set up, yet it does not really start until the 17^th. Kind of like a huge swap me it is. I expect there will be hundreds of vendors setting up. I bought a new small cookie sheet, which I keep under my wood fire stove in the van. I do all I can to be safe with this stove, so I can keep writing to you.

There were many people selling amazing looking rock. The wonders of the earth are just a marvel to see (hi, Cindy.) Also, as you see from photos, people had big skulls for sale.

Another nice and clear day today, perhaps near 80f. I just talked with my sister, Sandy, who lives up near Portland, Oregon. It is freezing up there, so glad I am down here.

Near the end of the day, a vendor offered me a free bag of Kettle Corn, I took him up on his offer. As you know, I recently was not eating anything, I nearly consumed the whole bag, not because I was hungry, simply because it tasted good and was something to do.

1/12—Stayed busy most of the day just walking around Quartzsite and seeing people vending. Sunday today, no, I didn’t go to church.

For three nights in a row I have eaten about 4pm, lunch and dinner combined. I made my delicious street tacos, pork this time, with a tasty and spicy mix I made.

Adult Day Care– HA

Here is about Mexican street tacos >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiu0SpxG1YM

1/13—The library opens at 8am. Since I slept right near the library, I was here at the opening. Watching videos, reading the news, writing to you. I spent all day here, then went out to make and eat my tacos.

1/14—Back north at Parker, Arizona to take care of some business and to get water from Walmart. Then I went to the library in town, as I have gone to this one before.

1/15—It gets so cold at night, I am using two blankets over my sleepy bad, so I stay warm. About a half-hour before the sun makes an appearance, I start my propane heater. Then, as the sun is making an appearance, I start my wood stove to heat water for tea.

When I stay in one place I have no costs, food I get from food banks, so no cost there. Really, my only cost out here is for fuel. So, I will clean the van windows and find other tasks to take care of today.

1/16—As you see, nothing much happening this week.

Last night I made rice!
It turned out perfect!

First time in the van. I did not have a measuring cup, so I used a plastic container I had. I forget that it will make two times the rice you put in, so I ended up making about five cups worth of rice. I made the rice on my wood stove. I ate the rice last night along with chili, will use it in other ways, too.

The big RV show I am here for officially starts tomorrow. So, I will be sleeping by the library and go there quick early to get a good place to park for the day. Then it will be back to the library to get this blog off to you, then back to where the LOWs group is parked.

                                            Jugglers–these are antique wooden cigar boxes–THE REAL THING!

1/17—I actually slept overnight at where the large RV show takes place. I know it is mighty difficult to find parking during the day, so an early arrival and a great place to park the van.
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My Challenge for You this Week >>

You know that last week I did not eat for the entire week. My challenge to you is to go without eating for four days. Make sure you keep drinking liquids, your body will be alright for the days you do not eat. Please get back to me on how it did for you, like the weight you will be losing.
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Next Blog >> With over 150,000 people expected at the RV show, I will let you know all about the happenings. Then I will be heading east and south from Quartzsite, Arizona. Are you on the way, may I visit you?
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The Wanderings of Kit (Do you wander or just wonder?)
With my words, I hope to throw some oblique light upon your soul.
By writing this blog I want to inspire you and show you that–
YES—YOU CAN > >
***Change your life at any time to make it more magnificent!
***Live with little money and still have an excellent life.
***Be able to live life getting very little sleep.
***Live ANYWHERE in the world and still make your life a fantastic event!
***See experiences that will add to and make your life better.
***I want to inspire you as to the wonders of the earth.
***Perhaps this is my new “gig”, traveling the world doing the same?
***And, I’m not just, “Kitting Around”.
                Design the life YOU want to live, NOW, then live that life!

*****************************************************
***Remember, to read past blog posts, go to kitsummers.com/blog/
***If you are reading this through Facebook, check out my blog on my website.
***If you are not my Facebook friend, yet, please befriend me.
***The freedom I am experiencing in my travels is a marvelous thing.
***Going where I want, when I want and seeing wonderful places and people.
***I will have places to show you and tales to tell.
***I will have secrets to unfold and good news!
                           I’m glad to take you on my journeys with me!
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Yes, the big 5-0. Fifty weeks traveling, this time anyway. Over the years I have put in many miles, all around the US, and the world! At least 33 times traveling round-trip across the US from one coast to the other.

In my last blog, I wrote some of my views on the idea of a God. I heard back from a few people who were really bothered by the words. The idea of a God just never made sense to me. Sorry if I disturbed some folks, I have to write what “I” believe.

It seems that, if they truly believe, deep down, words would not hurt them at all, and, I would think, they would want to steer me down their path. I’ve lost friends for my non-belief. Is a different perspective really that harmful?

I don’t write about God often, as you have seen, but every once in a while I bring up this subject. I am trying to have people “think”, before following a blind path toward a God. If the idea of God helps you, that’s a good thing!

How about if you were born in Afghanistan, would you still have a “Jesus” belief, or might you believe in “Allah”?

What I have seen is that there are many people who live this life, the only one we know we have for sure, with half effort, hoping for a better life later in heaven. I urge you; reach for your potential now, while you can on this Earth, and make a better world for all of us.

With all the wars, all the hatred, all the bickering, all the control, and all the indifference included with faith and religion, these set us back in life. As Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along?”

As a planet, we need to work together more for the human race.

There are two questions I have posed to believers, I have never gotten a good answer >>Please give me your five “best” proofs for your God.

1. Please give me your five “best” proofs for your God.

2. Give me five reasons I should believe in said God.

Then I tell them that they cannot refer to ANY religious books, in any way.
And, please, if you do this, tell me exactly what you believe, and why do you believe it?
Can you do it?
Can you let me know answers?
Yikes, have lost more friends by writing about the idea of a God?
Hope I didn’t upset anyone with my words.
Enough on that subject, one that can be proven or disproven, but until I see some proof, I remain a skeptic.

Each week, as you would know, I do not know what my future will hold or what I will write.
Somehow I am able to gather words together and send them to you.
Also, it’s still strange to me to not know where I will park to sleep each night.

Since last week my feelings have been way up and way down. Spending much time at libraries writing, reading and watching YouTube. Wasting my time and my life? well, just spending time.

(I found my brush, by the way.)
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Words to inspire you!

From my book series, “Beyond Your Potential”

As you might know, I have been through many big life-changes.
Here are some suggestions I developed regarding life changes:

• Every day is a new beginning, a chance to bring opportunities for positive change. Each time you move forward, you have no idea what will happen. But without pushing forward, “nothing” will happen.

• Learn to accept life and changes. If you can change something for the better, then do; if you know you can’t change anything, then don’t bring on resistance and accept life as it is.

• Life is about taking risks and not about having answers—it’s about taking chances and making the most of every moment of your life, all without knowing what is going to happen next. Thinking this way makes life exciting and stimulates the mind.

• Like a juggler, keep dropping as long as you keep picking up. Making mistakes is not a problem. The problem is failure to learn from a mistake. As long as you are willing and able to learn something from what occurs, mistakes are usually beneficial in the long run.

• Who can like you better than you—who, me? You could blame and disgrace yourself, but when tragedy strikes, you deserve the most love and kindness of all. Support yourself, just as you would like others to support you.

• Life goes on, and nothing is eternal, so appreciate every moment, fully and completely. As you know, it will never happen again. Now is now. You only have one chance for this time.

• Like juggling, try to strike a comfortable balance between following your heart and thinking critically. Emotions can often cloud and confuse critical thinking, which can lead you down a dangerous road and making you an easy target for those who seek to deceive and manage (the bad guys.) But when it comes to personal relationships and life choices, your heart knows best. When you find yourself uncertain, trust in your brain and your instincts as you move forward in life through changes.

• Unwind. So many people rush through life (as I have, much, off and on.) Take the time to just stop and breathe, to look around you and see beauty, to smell that pretty flower, to juggle three balls, to remember why you are here (as a social species we must help others, for instance) and to find what has real meaning in life.

• Don’t take yourself too seriously. Bring joy into your life; you have that power. A good sense of humor is essential. There’s a good reason people say, “Laughter is the best medicine.” You must develop the playfulness, if it’s not already there.

• Help others; it will bring you joy and fulfillment. Do something for someone else, show caring, love and make giving a part of your daily life—even if it is just a simple smile or a hug. It is more for you than it is for them, and what goes around really does tend to come around. Start right now to assist people.

To help with changes, I’ve developed a certain mindset in my life. When something happens or goes wrong, I do not panic. Immediately, I think, “Now that this has happened, how can I start to deal with this change and look for solutions?”

I think of ways to solve the new problem—right away. I am not sad and I do not regret. I just move through the change and develop strategies on how to make things better again.

THE KEY IS TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
DON’T OVER-ANALYZE THE PROBLEM.

Finding solutions is crucial to getting through life in a good way. This habit I developed is automatic now. Right after some change happens, or as it is happening, be it good or bad, I am already looking for answers to the change.

Julia Sheehan is living the life like I am of adventure.
This a great video, watch It>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJduf7v4Wwo
This post video is great, too >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvL1nxM3X80

Take it from an old man (60—yikes, I still feel like I’m 23)–Live life, don’t work it away, find joy!
Life moves fast, so savor every moment, as I am doing now!

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MY DAILY JOTTINGS >>

1/3/20—Drove to Brawley, California today. On my way back to the slabs, I had mail forwarded to there for me. At the library now, earlier I was in the library on their wifi, they closed at 5pm, yet, I am still able to get online on their wifi while sitting in the van, so here I am.

In fact, I will be sleeping in the van right where I am parked. There is some traffic, but I find it will be less and less as night comes on. So, good night for now.

I passed a huge amount of cows (poor things.)                                                                           And vegetable fields were all around. 

1/4—Turned out to be very quiet last night. I knew that traffic would eventually let up and I wouldn’t hear any traffic noise; as happened.

Today is the first day of not eating for a week. I’ve gone without for four days, that worked out fine. I am drinking green tea through each day (and bud light in the evening.) Plus, exercising, too.

In the library charging up all my things, checking the news, and writing some emails. Libraries are very much of a benefit to humans.

I’ve arrived back at LOWs “http://lonersonwheels.com/” at Slab City, California.

Slab city, a unique place, no laws, really, and people tend to get along and work together. But, the slabs is practically empty in the summer, when temperatures can reach over 120f.

Here is an interesting video I just found about the slabs >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vG4vXD6Ks

The LOWs group has solar and batteries, so I am plugged in while typing to you. I love that we can get free electricity, makes life better.

I had to pick up a couple things here that were mailed to me. Some other people here have big rigs and TV and internet access, I don’t. So, it is quite boring for me being here, I will be leaving tomorrow. I have to get back to my exploring and my adventures.

Staying south for the warmth, I will be aiming toward Bisbee, Arizona.

1/5—A warm sunny day at 9:35am, should be a delightful day. Back where I live for over 25 years it is below freezing.

Overnight I changed my mind, I wasn’t going to go, but, I am thinking about going to the big event for motor homes and people who live like I do, which takes place in Quartzsite, California, but I thought about it overnight and I think I will go.

It sounds like many of the people from here with the LOWs group will be going. Not that I need anything for the van, but, with over 100,000 people attending, it might be interesting?

Jim, who lives with these LOWs and is a great chef, will be making meals at Quartzsite and might need some help, so I am going to make an offer to him, if I help with preparing and serving meals, he would let me eat for free? I will let you know . . .

Today I talked with Jim about working with him so I can get free meals, he basically said he has plenty of help, so it sounded like no. I totally understand, though.

The second day of not eating. I feel my body changing, but I am not getting hungry at all. On my second big cup of tea (30 ounces) now, that is all I will have for a week. Have you ever gone without eating for more than one day? You must try it.

1/6—John, who I met initially connected with about LOWs and the Slabs, urged me to go to the event at Quartzsite, Arizona and I have decided to go. Really, there is no rush on anything in my life. And, it will be a new experience; I strive for those. Yet, it does not start for a couple of weeks, and being only about 85 miles away, what’s a boy to do?

I had my green tea for breakfast. The third day of my fast, still not getting hungry. I have read that it is good to do what I am doing now and then to clean out your body.

As well as aiding weight loss, not eating for some days can have other health benefits, too. Research suggests that occasional 24-hour fasting can improve cardiovascular health. And, some evidence from research on animals shows that fasting can help fight certain kinds of cancer or even help preserve memory. Not eating and/or, hungry, does not “hurt” in any way.

I read that it can reduce the risk of obesity, psychological pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, blood pressure, kidney problems, and heart disease. While fasting is not possible for all people with, such as, liver disease, there are many people who can benefit from fasting.

Here are some other benefits >>
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fasting-benefits#section4

                                                Passed many wind farms on the way

I’ve stopped at another library. It is Monday, and, guess what, they are closed on Monday. I kept busy, though. I took everything out of the van and cleaned it well. I was mainly looking for a special hairbrush, must have lost it somehow. It is a kind that my mom always used, and I don’t even know the brand name, yikes.

Around the library, I see homeless with their shopping carts carrying all their positions. Sad to see lives that have gone down this far, but, then again, I am not far off from that? Or, do I carry my home with me?

I keep my hair short so I really don’t need a brush at all. In fact, this afternoon I gave myself a haircut, including my eyebrows. As you might know, I have a hair trimmer and cut my own hair. Turns out pretty good, I have never had a negative comment on the cut.

Also, I did my weight lifting, rode the unicycle and took a bike ride.

It’s interesting not eating at all. We spend so much time preparing and eating meals, I seem to have much free time now. I’m on my third cup of green tea. You might think I have a normal little teacup, I have a Bubba 30 ounce insulated mug!

I’ve decided to go to Quartzsite now, I will take a slow drive up there. I made sure there was a library and also a McDonald’s there so I could get online – yes and yes.

1/7—On my fourth day of my fast, halfway there. I still am not hungry, either. Maybe I’ll just keep it up and post of video of Kit shriveling away?

I found this about the RV show I will be at starting next week >>
https://www.quartzsitervshow.com/attendee-info

In Quartzsite now, I have until the 18^th until it starts (today is the seventh.) I will keep busy with things – I have my computer, my bike, my unicycle, and my juggling props, so, it will be interesting to see how I spent time.

So, time to spend, I decided to go to Blythe, California, and here I am. I need to get back to the wilderness, so, I think, tomorrow I will be going toward the north and exploring the Colorado River. It’s only 25 miles to the west, might as well.

Spent most of the day on the computer.
First at the library in Quartzsite, then the library in Blythe.

After the library, I drove to Mayflower Park, right on the Colorado River. Very nice, many RV’s parked around here, they are looking forward to the RV show, I would think?

The Colorado River, in all it’s splendor. 

Woo woo, woo is that? There is an owl hooting in a tree not more than twenty feet away. Such a nice sunset, too, wish I had gotten a photo for you to see. Yes, there is a smile on my face.

It will be very quiet and very dark, just how I like it.
I will sleep well tonight, hope to do, too.
Happy I am.

1/8—Dark last night, but, some RV’s ran their generators in the late night. There should be a law against that. I awoke early, as usual, before the rise of the sun. When I awaken I never know what time it really is, my sleep is so eradicate. I used my stove and boiled water for tea.

Only tea for me. As you know, I am not eating for a week, fasting I am and doing it very quickly. I can start eating on Saturday, it will be one week then. I am still not really hungry, but, my muscles are cramping a little saying they are hungry.

Now it is the afternoon, still not hungry, only drinking green tea. I’m finding, in a big way, we spend so much to eating, when I am not eating, I have so much more time in the day.

Out of California now, in Arizona now, so gas is about half what I was paying in CA.

1/9—Last night I slept outside of a food bank I will be visiting later. Now I am at a warm McDonald’s on their wifi.

Last night the muscles in my legs were constricting, hurting much. I think the muscles were screaming >> “Feed us, Feed us!” In the middle of the night last night I told myself I was going to start eating food tomorrow, before my week-long fast ends on Saturday. But, I will keep the week-long fast going till the end.

Although, still not hungry, at all.

I do hope my body doesn’t yell at me some more.

Went to the food bank and got a load of food. Things that I don’t think I will use I left in a box outside the library. I arrived here about 8am, they open at 10.

At many libraries, they have separate meeting rooms where there are only two chairs and you can be behind a closed door, as I am now. Had to make a few calls and such.

Feeling some hunger pangs today, about time!

1/10—Slept with the van parked in a large flat parking lot. This was right next to a McDonald’s, so I went there at 5am, when they opened, to get online.

This is the seventh day of not eating, I will start again tomorrow by eating fruit to begin. I’ve lost much weight, I believe, I have no scale to check. The whole week I only had a couple of instances when I was hungry. I believe I could easily continue with this for a while more, perhaps next time I will go for a longer fast?

Although I’m not eating for a week, I went by two foodbanks today and got gobs of food.

The sun is just making an appearance, no clouds, should be a nice warm day.

I’m looking forward to getting back to eating tomorrow.

(I found my brush, by the way.)

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My Challenge for You this Week >>

When is the last time you went camping?
Years ago I camped in the snow with a tent, a memory that is always with me.
This week, plan an outing to camp as the spring comes toward us.
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Next Blog >>
You will hear all about the RV show I will be attending starting the 17^th.
And, you will hear about my return to consuming food, starting with fruit.

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The Wanderings of Kit (Do you wander or just wonder?)

With my words, I hope to throw some oblique light upon your soul.

By writing this blog I want to inspire you and show you that–

YES—YOU CAN > >

• Change your life at any time to make it more magnificent!
• Live with little money and still have an excellent life.
• Be able to live life getting very little sleep.
• Live ANYWHERE in the world and still make your life a fantastic event!
• See experiences that will add to and make your life better.
• I want to inspire you as to the wonders of the earth.
• Perhaps this is my new “gig”, traveling the world doing the same?
• And, I’m not just, “Kitting Around”.

Design the life YOU want to live, NOW, then live that life.

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***If you are reading this through Facebook, check out my blog on my website.

***If you are not my Facebook friend, yet, please befriend me.

***The freedom I am experiencing in my travels is a marvelous thing.

***Going where I want, when I want and seeing wonderful places and people.

***I will have places to show you and tales to tell.

***I will have secrets to unfold and good news!

I’m glad to take you on my journeys with me!

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Last week I was feeling quite down, as you might been able to tell from reading my words. This week I am feeling much better, thanks to those of you who contacted me with concerns. I know it is up to me to make and see the happiness for myself.

Chris and Dena Myers, you are the best of friends. Thanks for the only Christmas gift I received, a money gift through PayPal, that made my Christmas great. And, when you wrote that my weekly blog was my gift to you, that pleases me, much.

Chris and Dena, I loved when I had a booth at your food show, https://gourmetshows.com/. I loved being there and sold much of my salsa, summerssalsa.com. I am so impressed with such a classy company you put together and the classy life that you lead.

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Words to inspire you!

Don’t live each year the same for 82 times in a row and call it a life, there is more to you than that. Learn to deal with change, it will add much to your life, excel on being able to change with the changes. The main thing is, in everything you do, do your very best.

When I was a professional juggler, my aim was for excellence, to be the very best I could be. Same with writing my books, my salsa business (summerssalsa.com) and my recovery from my accidents.

Aim toward excellence, be “The Best”. Put your full attention on what you are doing in each moment of your life and drive yourself toward doing your very best.

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MY DAILY JOTTINGS >>

12/21—Yesterday I made another batch of my tasty salsa, right in my van; turned out as good as usual. As I wrote before, let me know and I will send you the recipe. Thanks again for the mini-chopper/food processor, Dave Kha.

And, yesterday, I went to see my friend, Lorna Paris. She was kind of a young “groupie” back when I performed street shows in Balboa Park in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Some years ago Lorna came down with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) MS can ravage a body, she is able to walk, but not very well. Many other changes, too. She can no longer juggle 3 balls, her body just won’t allow it. Lorna’s mind is sharp, but she feels it diminishing, too.

Her husband, Terry, has stayed with her through all this, and will continue to. Such a good man he truly is.

Lorna’s mom, Charlotte, came down with dementia a number of years ago. Her dad is suffering through Alzheimer’s and both her parents are slowly losing. They each might have trouble even recognizing their daughter, so sad.

In fact, Charlotte and I had a romance, after my first accident, I was 23, Charlotte, 43. Such special memories of this wonderful lady.

And, as you recall, in my last blog I was complaining about not being able to juggle well? Seeing and talking with Lorna makes me really think of all I do have and all I can do. How about you, having trouble, can you relate?

After having dinner with Lorna (her husband was working security somewhere until midnight), I drove to the nearest library and slept in the parking lot. Was quiet and, for a change, I slept well.

The next day I went to see Joyce Scatolini-Madrid, we went to the same high school, her five years after me. She was calling numbers for a bingo match for old people, said I would meet her there. It was in Balboa Park, my old stomping grounds where I used to perform street shows.

I made sure I arrived early so I could look around the park. I rode my unicycles all over this huge park, and juggled in many areas, too. The park was sort of like a home away from home. I never imagined I would play bingo in the park.

Well, yes, I played bingo and lost.

I match the age of some, I guess I am old now?

After I dropped Joyce off at her home, I did not know what to do, lost again I was (well, my mind was lost.) I decided to go back to Ocean Beach, where I grew up. When I passed the turnoff to get to where my mom used to live, I cried. She is dead now and it hurt sooooo much to remember.

It’s great, I don’t have to count on GPS so much in San Diego, remembering how to get around where I grew up.

12/23—At the library on the computer most of the day. Much rain for the next five days, it’s nice to be inside.

I had contacted six people I know in the San Diego area about, perhaps, stopping by to see them on Christmas day. Only one responded, Chris Foster, who let me know he was in Germany with his brother. So, of course, I did not expect him to return for Christmas with Kit.

Yet, I would expect to hear from at least one other person about Christmas. Right now I am planning a chicken taco dinner in the van at the beach alone. I hope your Christmas was a fantastic event.

I walked on the main street of Ocean Beach, Newport Avenue, up one side and down the other. You may not know, I grew up on Newport street, up the hill at 4522. There are only a few shops and restaurants still going that are the same as when I lived here; so much change has occurred.

Memories came to me of when I rode my various unicycles up and down Newport Street. Riding my seven-foot unicycle, up above the vehicles, always got reactions. And, when I rode my 14-foot unicycle, having to duck under telephone lines, much much interest.

12/24—Happy Christmas Eve! Last night I slept down the road on Via Las Cumbres, near where I lived with Mary Ellen. This is right on Tecolote Canyon, a protected wilderness area. As I expected, it was dark and quiet.

Mary Ellen and I got married and lived in this apartment for ten years before we moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area and bought a house in the town of Trainer. I loved living here on Tecolote Canyon. Perhaps that is what drove me back to spend the night? No, I knew it would be quiet and dark.

Next, it was on to OB (Ocean Beach.) While wearing my running shorts, I took a shower in the outside beach showers. Cold, yes, but necessary.

Now I am back in the OB library, plugged in and on their wifi.

On this Christmas eve, I have parked on a side street in OB, hoping it will be quiet. Still have no plans for tomorrow, we will both see what comes to be.

12–25—MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope I am not saying that too late.

I spent last night parked on Froude Street, a place near the beach. As I expected, it was quiet. When I awoke I waited until the sun made an appearance, then drove to the beach. I was amazed at the few cars parked on the busy Newport Street.

When I arrived at the empty beach parking lot, I just looked over the area. There were a few homeless milling around. I opened the side doors and started my stove (remember, it just uses wood, like twigs, for fuel.) First I boiled water for my green tea, then I fried up some potatoes with onions (my favorite.)

Memories—they started up at 6am. OB is right in a flight path from the airport. They passed a law many years ago that they cannot start up until six, but after six it was a plane every few minutes. So, even on Christmas day, life goes on. Many many times through school the teacher would have to stop and wait because of the noise.

I just met a guy who is traveling while on a bike. He carries everything with him. I could tell he was a smart guy. From North Carolina, he was driving and living in his vehicle, but then his car broke down. He purchased a bike for cheap and does not know what direction he is going, like me, he just has to go.

Back in high school a couple friends and I went to the beach on Christmas day and went body surfing. I was planning on doing the same today, but, because of the strong cold wind, I chickened out.

After I got to the beach I just sat and looked around the area. There were some homeless around. I like to help them how I can (I guess I am one of?) A women knocked on my window and asked if I had any cigarettes. I said “no” and gave her some chocolate as I said, “This is much better for you”

After, done with OB and San Diego, to the north I roam.

After my first accident in 1982, I was at Sharp Rehab for help learning to walk, talk and everything physical. I had known what to do, I just had to retrain my muscles. The therapists did help, much. When I started riding my bicycle from OB up to rehab, ten miles each way, my rehab ended soon after.

As you know, in the last blog I was somewhat down, alright, a lot down. At some urging by my good friend, Lissa Tyson-Pyke, who suggested I try and help people, I went to Sharp Rehab, where I was an inpatient in 1982 for several months after my 37-day coma.

I wanted to inspire and entertain some people who were here.

I met with Noel Furrnandez, who attempted suicide by jumping from a bridge (he broke his body, bad.) This 23-year old (my big accident happened to me when I was 23, too.) worked at casinos as a card dealer and also liked to gamble himself (He was way in debt and, with some other factors involved, saw no other way but death.

Also, there was Phil Pressel and his wife, Pat. Last week Phil had his “other” leg amputated. He has a circulation problem. He is in Sharp to relearn how to get through life without legs.

We all talked for a while and, I think, we helped each other. I also did some juggling and some magic to entertain them. Good idea, Liisa, I do feel better now.

Up north out of San Diego now. I took Via De La Valle and stopped at a McDonald’s. They were, surprisingly, open, on Christmas day. Even more amazing, they were jammed with people. All afternoon they had many people come through.

A couple, just to my right, both people on their phones not talking. It seems so wrong to me.

I just cooked and ate my Christmas dinner, I did make it a festive event. Four chicken tacos, including my home-made salsa. Quite delicious, I must say. I did all this in the van, which was parked right outside a McDonald’s.

Hard to believe how many people come to McDonald’s for Christmas dinner, including many families. Were they raised this way, or are they just lazy?

12/26—Yes, the day after. I’m back at that McDonald’s where I was last night, on their wifi and electric. Still surprised at how many people were here last night for Christmas dinner.

Last night I was in a residential area to sleep. Awoke to much rain dropping down on the van roof. Still getting about five hours a night, enough for me to live.

12/27—After spending the night in a quiet residential area, it was off to yet another McDonald’s, up north near a Best Buy I have to go to today about my computer. This one is very empty and I am in a side room where no one can see me. In fact, perhaps I will start living here?

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My Challenge for You this Week >>

When is the last time you read a good book?

It’s time, read a book this week that will add to your life.

Let me know what book and how it changed you.

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Next Blog >> Spending a few days for New Years celebrations with my friend Daniel Powell. You will hear all about it in the next post.

How long into the night can I last?

Will I drink? How much?

Will I meet a lovely female friend?

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