My time in Alaska has ended, the Adventure continues...

 It has been a while since my last post on here. However it has been a busy two months. 

As the title suggests I am no longer in Skagway, I left Alaska at the end of  June. I have been relatively quiet on social media as I work towards whatever comes next after Alaska. Alaska was without a doubt one of the greatest adventures I have ever went on, it's something I never thought I would ever get to do. However while I was in Alaska I learned a lot, a lot about railroading, a lot about history, and I learned a lot about me. Who am I, and what I need out of my life. 

I learned that I absolutely cannot spend a single day separated from my God and my faith. While I was in Alaska I waned away from my faith, I wasn't reading scripture, I wasn't praying, and I wasn't attending any gatherings of Christians for worship or fellowship. Essentially I unplugged myself from the very source of my strength and expected things to "just be fine" without it. Spoiler alert, things "were not fine" without it! By the time I had realized what had gone wrong it was too late for me to try and start over. 

I learned where do I want to live? I have grown extremely tired of just moving around the country, trying new things in new places. Hopping from place to place searching for something I might never find. I want a home, I want a place where I can stay in one spot and put down my roots. Alaska taught me that my dreams of living out west would not be as easy as I had previously thought. I had become ferociously home sick. I missed humid summer mornings, I missed the feeling after a hellacious thunderstorm in the mountains. I missed my Momma, Sweet Tea, and the smells of home. I missed not being able to call up my friends after a long day at work, because by the time I got off the clock everyone back home was already in bed. Perhaps running out west to start a new life isn't quite for me? Perhaps I am not in that season of my life yet. The only person that knows what's next for me is my Father in Heaven. The Master Craftsman and Devine King of the universe, and he has not let me know what he is thinking, but I know that wherever I go in this world I am NOTHING without him.