SoloTraveler/Adventurer

  Traveling Sterile Processing Technician Hello current and future traveler/adventurists. There are millions of you out there who would like to travel much more and have more freedom to do the things that go with traveling. But, like most of you I was stuck dreaming about it for decades because I could not afford it and I only had two weeks’ vacation a year at a job that didn’t pay me enough to take far away vacations and afford costly adventures, like scuba diving, sky diving, and many other exciting adventures. Then one day desperate for a job with benefits while making barely enough to pay my bills, I applied for a job at a hospital as a sterile processing technician (no experience or degree required). I had no idea what this job demanded (it is a lot). I got the job and was trained by great people in southern Illinois. But the pay was not very good. Then one day they hired an older lady who told us that we could make three to five times as much if we traveled. I though at t...

  SCUBA DIVING: I recently completed my first  scuba diving certification  in San Diego California. It was a physical and mental challenge for me as well as the other five members of the class. Scuba diving fits very well with some of the readings this past week in my writing class as well as the over-all theme of this blog.  The essay for this week’s class that had the biggest effect on my and matched the theme of my blog was the article by Emily Esfahani Smith “the two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves.”  The Four Pillars:  While the article was mostly about creating positive narratives about past events as well as how we move into our futures. The real focus of this blog can be best understood by  Emily’s Ted Talk . In this she describes how chasing happiness is a mistake and that the real and healthy way to live is to find meaning in our lives. This is best done by belonging too and serving something beyond yourself. She gives an analogy of ...

  Hello visitors! I would like to give you a warm welcome to my blog and tell you a little bit about this place. First, a little about me and my current life. I am a traveling sterile processor , I clean, decontaminate, inspect, process, and sterilize surgical instruments. So, my job gives me great opportunities to travel to various places around the United States, and because I work through contracts (usually three months at a time), I get free time to travel to other countries. This blog is going to be about my experiences while traveling as well as the activities that I love doing. These activities include, scuba diving, kayaking, gravel biking, flying my drone, hiking, skydiving, paragliding, and other outdoor adventures. I intend to use this blog to link to and support my other social media platforms, my YouTube channel, and a future podcast that will be based on interviews with various people that I meet along the way, as well as monetize by affiliates and advertising ab...