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…continued from previous post.<\/em><\/p>\n

In my quest to find some sort of peace with my place in life, I began to seek out adventure.\u00a0 I have been an off and on runner for quite a few years now, and while I had been running, I decided to try new trails, and make adventures out of my weekends.\u00a0 I drove up to Michigan to run 17 miles, and basked in the glory of getting out of my own town, and out of my own head.\u00a0 The more time I spent pursuing something that I had considered out of my reach, the more I found enjoyment in what I was doing.<\/p>\n

I guess I may have gone a bit too far, because it was during this period that a friend showed me an auction site used by government agencies to sell public property.\u00a0 I signed up for an account, and with my very first bid won something a bit bigger than I expected to win.<\/p>\n

I won a 2002 Thomas school bus.<\/p>\n

\"\"The bus was in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

I had 7 days to pick it up.<\/p>\n

So I flew to Washington D.C. and endeavored to drove the bus back to Ohio.\u00a0 It was probably one of the more crazy things I think I have ever done, and it was certainly\u00a0way<\/em> out of my comfort zone.\u00a0 I had never driven a vehicle that big before, and I had bought it on the internet, with no chance to inspect it or even determine if it would start when I got there.\u00a0 I took a\u00a0HUGE\u00a0<\/em>risk and I really had no way to know how it would turn out.<\/p>\n

The night before I flew out, I met a girl at a Wal-Mart to show her a cool quarry I had taken a picture of on a previous adventure, and we ended up getting coffee afterwords.\u00a0 \u00a0We talked for several hours, and then I had to take another huge risk and tell her where I was going the next day.\u00a0 This was also something that was totally outside of my comfort zone.\u00a0 It really turned out that October 2016 was a fateful October.<\/p>\n

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\nTo make the long story short, I spent the next four days getting the bus back to Ohio.\u00a0 It was an adventure I hope I never forget, driving through the fall leaves in the mountains of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.\u00a0 When I finally made it home, I was exhausted but excited.<\/p>\n

I had bought the bus in hopes of turning it into an RV.\u00a0 A mobile home.\u00a0 Somewhere to call my own.\u00a0 I had no peace in the apartment, and I was seeking something new and fulfilling.\u00a0 I was seeking a home.<\/p>\n

Home is a word we throw around a lot, but I really do believe that ‘home’ is essential to peace.\u00a0 Having a place to call home can be the difference between hopeful and hopeless.\u00a0 Many who live in a house don’t truly have a home, and many who have no house, can have a happy home.\u00a0 Home is a place that you feel safe, a place that you find love, a place that is filled with peace.<\/p>\n

Maybe your home doesn’t look like this, or at least it doesn’t right now, but I encourage you to identify those things in your life that are preventing you from being at peace, and work to change them.\u00a0 I knew that I wasn’t at peace where I was, and I started trying things I had never tried before to change where I was.\u00a0 I chose to seek a new way where my old way was not working.\u00a0 Sometimes finding peace means making a scary and drastic change.<\/p>\n

To be concluded…<\/em><\/p>\n