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RE: @naturalmedicine challenge : supporting mental health
I’m about to set off on my own traveling journey with no real plans due to my inability to commit. My working destination, coincidentally, is Oregon- although recently I made the decision that it won’t be my final one nor is there a final one in sight. Maybe it’s coincidence I happened upon your post but I support you in your journey and will be following it from now on. Cheers :)
where are you headed from and how long you think you'll be in Oregon? It's pretty sweet there and so dynamic.. a little of everything. California is quite the land, too... So much to see in the west. Good luck on your trip.
I'm leaving from Vermont and will be there for an unknown amount of time. I want to continue traveling but I also have work there so I guess I'm trying to make it there on my budget and then stay there for a little and work towards another leg of the trip. I've spent a good amount of time in Oregon and California before- I used to snowboard competitively so it brought me to a lot of places out west. I'm a huge fan of Oregon. California too, just not always, haha.
there's definitely different cultures there... i keep getting swept back to california, and while I like so much of the wild lands... some of the culture is weird for me. some of it is amazing. I'm from the south, so i can be TOTALLY different. competitive snowboarding! cool! i downhill/backcountry/cross country ski and my partner snowboards and has since it literally began ... so he loves tahoe... given that i prefer the culture of nordic skiing (i worked at a family owned place in new hampshire for years!) I am just more into the rustic Scandinavian thing... its interesting to be on the western slopes and on lifts.
I'm from Estonia originally(born there, don't remember it at all)- but the point is I totally get the whole rustic Scandinavian thing. That was kind of my whole family's thing.. I was always just kind of the weirdo of the family haha. Tahoe was the first place I tried to live out of high school! I say tried to because I couldn't find a good place/job so I spent a few months sleeping at a friends before heading back east.
I'm certainly not going to Oregon for the culture- I've got a lot of friends there but as a whole I've heard it's a little ritzy and odd. I'm more interested in the geography. In terms of culture, I'm much more excited about the places I stumble upon on my way out there haha!