Road trip to a new life (??)

I am writing from somewhere in Oregon now, even though my home is in North West Washington….

The situation: My life has been in chaos lately, due to enormous changes in my life: The younger of our 2 children has basically flown the nest, first fishing in Alaska for the summer, then off to college in the fall. And, my fellow nester, aka my husband, has just been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, and no longer drives or works. My status as part time spiritual practitioner and part time stay at home mom has officially changed to chief breadwinner.

I’m looking at all options for work: stay the course and continue my work of 22 years as an independent spiritual counselor, or apply for a “real job”, or finish up my fiction book, Energy Soup and see where that takes me, or all of the above.

Yet, in the spirit of thinking outside the box, which has always done fairly well for me, I’ve had another inspiration: For quite some time, I've been feeling that living in small town LaConner is possibly drawing to a close. It’s been a great place to raise the boys, but LaConner has barely supported my work. Plus, public transportation is basically non-existent for my non-driving husband.

Yesterday we loaded u our little ol’ car and pointed it out of town for a month long spirit-led road trip. It’ll be worth the investment. My intent is to find allies and new friends to support my work, inspiration for us as we continue to hammer out our respective books, and to possibly find our new community.

I don’t know our entire itinerary yet, but am open to suggestions! If you know of places for me to work, or cool places for us to explore, let us know either by emailing me here, responding to my blog (www.inspirationu.com/blog/). Next up: time in southern Oregon, and then pointing eastward to possible job and co-housing community in Prescott Arizona, taking in some painted rocks along the way?

Perspective, tips and intuitions welcome. Thanks!! Elke