Have Camper: Will Travel
Things are moving. I just bought a BIGASS car this past week.
The monster of a car is the Toyota Sequoia, their most powerful SUV. I had been driving an economical Toyota hybrid, great for getting around the city. But as I prepare to shift to a lifestyle that is going to be some combination of writer, speaker, consultant, advocate and retreat leader I needed two things—to have vehicle that could pull my 16-foot trailer around the country and to cut my current car payment in half. This older model Sequoia fit the bill perfectly.
I say BIGASS partly because it is a monster of a vehicle. But I think I use the words just as much to indicate how big this feels to me emotionally. The trade in and purchase of this vehicle reveals that I really am 100% full in on this Pedal Pilgrim work. I have no idea where the funding is going to come for this work (or if it will at all), but I am making decisions that will free me up to dedicate myself fully to this work, regardless of funding.
The “Home on the road” with prior car.
This week I set myself up so that I could live on the road in order to follow the energy of this work. And over the next two months I am getting my house ready for either short term rentals, a long term rental or even for sale. I am clearly freeing myself up to go all in.
I am sharing this with you because it feels like I am basically making a contract with the Universe. I think it goes something like this:
I will make myself available to do this work however and wherever it is needed and will anticipate the Universe to give me some hints of where I need to be and how I need to show up.
From the first months when I began sharing this idea of fostering a culture of pilgrimage in America there has been really good energy around it. But one of the things that has been increasingly clear is that this work can’t be done sitting in front of a computer in a cramped little office. This is going to require meeting people, collaborating with community partners and agencies, and being available to go where the need and opportunity is.
This has always felt more like a movement than a project. Projects have plans. Movements follow energy. If I am to follow I will need to free myself up to make myself available. Thus my “new” BIGASS car and my efforts to get my house ready for rent or sale.
My schedule is booked up through the end of October, but starting November I will be making myself available to communities, organizations and local governing bodies that exist along the 175,000 miles of designated routes and trails across America.
In coming weeks I will be updating my website to show the hundreds of routes across America and provide an updated description of the vision and my services.
If you or someone in your network would benefit from my presence and my unfolding vision, please pass my information along to them.
Remember, I am 100% in.
“Have Camper. Will Travel.”
Brian Heron
Cultural Innovator and Spiritual Pilgrim