Simply, Lesa

  Well - how about a day late Weekly Wednesday Update on Facebook! - It's about 830 am on Thursday. I woke up a little later than usual - Wendy tucked into bed closer to me during the night mostly because of the cool inside temperature. I have had my coffee and breakfast cuddled up close to the woodstove. Vehicles: Chevy Tracker Travels will continue in some form - after Boss Custom in Nevada finishes the 1st Gen 98 Tracker engine rebuild and some restoration. The Blue 2nd Gen Tracker is pretty healthy now that we - both Boss Custom and Stan's Auto( Stan Vial & the mechanics including Jeremy Portz ) - have done some work on it. It certainly handles the muddy dirt roads in Apache County Arizona well. I'm glad I made the decision to buy and use this little truck to get home. Being stuck alone at the cabin without a vehicle is very difficult and this was actually cost effective. Home & cabin: I do believe that I have solved the animals under the cabin issue. Sur

I just posted this message on social media: Good Friday July 28 Morning!  I need to ask for help.  I have been stranded in the Nevada heat for over a month. My engine blew and needs replaced.  Helpful donations can be sent using PayPal.me/simplylesa   CashApp - $simplylesa  www.buymeacoffee.com/simplylesa More detailed information on www.SimplyLesa.blogspot.com and in  @SimplyLesa ​ YouTube videos as well as in my Keep Living Simply Facebook Group. ~~~~~~~~ MORE! For those of you who are readers, let's give you a little more information so it's hot I'm camping with the Chevy Tracker at the home of the mechanic that is behind his auto repair shop.  As you might imagine this is a challenging situation because I'm at the mercy of other people and deliveries and there's a lot of unknowns in this situation. Some of you are aware that I do have a monthly income that is SSDI and at this current moment is $1,000 per month. I have monthly expenses that include car insurance

 Good morning my friends! I am focused on today. Only today.  It's odd how your past and your future as well, doesn't matter much when you are going through some life changes!  I wonder, is the fact that my engine is toast in my current vehicle, my Chevy Tracker. I am camping, in the now engine-less Tracker at the mechanic shop. I have been for 10 days now. I'm not used to the bugs, weeds and hot temperatures of rural central Nevada.  I do wait for that inner guidance and inspiration even more daily now as the situation is basically out of my control. I am not fond of situations that are outside of my control. I have had plenty of situations outside my control throughout my life.  My Chevy Tracker turned vintage (25 years old) this year.  ... I started this post a couple weeks ago Let's write a do over shall we! Watch for that coming up in a couple days 😜

Good beautiful morning y'all! Candy Shenan (@chicksdoit2) and I hosted the final Community Conversation at one of the Bivys (shade/water / and phone charging station) at Overland Expo West in Flagstaff on Sunday afternoon. At that moment in time I didn't know where I was going next.. and yet here I am!  I often say that plans in world travel, overland and nomadic lifestyles are written in jello! They are ever changing! I spent the extra night that instructors, diyers and presenters of the event are offered and moved over to camp with the "stragglers". That last night is often a get together and hangout together of the Overland Expo "Family" - people who have been coming and traveling for years. At times, often depending on the weather, it can be a stress relief from days of a people-y event and sometimes a little bit of an after party. Often we discuss where we will spend the next few days or what direction we will be traveling forward. Sometimes

It's Wednesday again! Sometimes time flies so quickly. I have spent this past week cleaning, thinking, sorting, working with the photos and videos I took in Baja and even further simplifying my own life.  Being back at the cabin there are a few chores to do and after a nice long winter away there are changes in my perspective.  I am no longer the person I was when I was here the last time.  You see I embrace the simplifying process that all of us as humans go through it's a reprioritation, a newfound perspective of who we are being in this moment as opposed to who we were in our past. Even at times the past of yesterday!  Think about  that for a minute.  -  I've changed I've grown I've explored, I explored who I am in the greater world again I've explored who I am in relationship to other people again something that I had avoided for many years I had practiced very well being alone and it was time to let that go.  Coming back and walking the property

I am sitting down later in the day today, Wednesday April 19th, 2023 to write and then post for my blog this week. It is warm inside the cabin here on my property. The wind has been blowing rather hard today, I believe the weather reports predicted 50 mph winds which are pretty likely the speeds. A few things have blown over in the yard - not many as I keep even my yard fairly simple - sure there are decorations like large conch shells and some cinder block edging, a beach sand pail with old shells, a few solar lights and lanterns hang in the juniper trees along with a brass bird feeder, a little hummingbird feeder which happens to be new, a bird waterer....  The wind was cool, so I started a fire earlier to warm a kettle of water as well as the cabin. I love the feeling of a cabin heated by a woodstove. It seems cozier than other forms of heat. I had lunch today with my dear old friend “Skippedoodle69” - he has recently started a YouTube channel as he is preparing to Phillipine Movin!

 Please come join me and the Keep Living Simply Gang over on YouTube this very morning Sunday at 9:30 am Arizona Time (please adjust the timing for where you are in the world) click on the link below for  Simply Live  https://www.youtube.com/live/4f1h9CGlLuQ?feature=share

 Good morning! It was hot yesterday. I'm back in the USA after a month-long Overlanding group trip to Baja, Mexico! I am camping in the Tuscon area and will actually be helping a friend with some projects today before leaving this are for a northerly direction probably tomorrow morning.   I woke up early and was thinking about getting a blog post written for posting on Wednesday's as is my preference weekly (actual writing and posting well, sometimes it isn't quite happening yet). I checked my cell service for a connection and got into my blogging program. As I was connecting everything at about 4 am I noticed a message from another Overlanding aquaintence --- I was rather surprised to find a link to Waypoint Overland that discusses me in their subject about Overlanding Women.... that makes this post even easier (TIC) and brings up memories and thoughts about my time spent both in Baja and in the company of these two men.  Enjoy the podcast!  Comment and Subscribe and all

Since the Good Vibe Tribe expedition group arrived in Los Frailes, I have been waking up around 5 am and walking on the beach. I think that this solo peaceful wake up routine is the best.  I feel the cool sand on my feet, the waves lap my legs, and my muscles get a work out as I move with the resistance of the sand and the water's edge.  I see this world as it begins to wake up!  The sun begins to peak around the horizon until it becomes a full ball of bright yellow life warming goodness. I stop and face the sun fully, soaking in the morning warmth. I allow my eyes a few moments of drinking in those early morning life giving rays. The fisherman in the near by village begin to stir, a fish jumps, and the birds slowly begin to arrive. . I feel like taking this morning slowly. I didn't feel well yesterday. I felt the chill of the afternoon sun retreating below the horizon and retreated myself inside my tiny Tracker home. I recognized some pain in my lower l

It's been a busy, week and I thought I would have gotten around to writing about it so it could post on Wednesday. That didn't happen as I thought...and here we go 😅!  This past week has been filled with long hours of technical driving on mostly narrow mountain passes. It's been a great trip!  The Good Vibe Tribe, @j.m.k.adventures, @mamas.got.wheels, @wayoubox.com, @chicksdoit2, and @simplylesa.com, visited with @StringlessTheory at their glamping site. We also paid a minimal amount for camping in Guerrero Negro and La Paz. It was a welcome and needed change staying in the campsites. Hot showers, a restaurant meal, a little security and opportunity to walk around in a town helped bring us closer as a group as well as providing the needed break from long driving days.  We also visited some historic missions and of course walked through some local shops.  We enjoyed bonding and playing pool at the Mulege Brewery which was one free boondocking site we

I was in junior highschool in the early '70s. I guess I was developing ideas about who I wanted to be as an adult. I kept seeing explorers and Adventures on expeditions in Baja California Mexico and especially I remember watching the Baja 1000 races. I thought that was the coolest I wanted a Jeep I wanted to have that kind of adventure and I imagined driving on a sandy beach in Baja. Now I also was looking at a lot of surfing information in magazines and probably on TV. I don't know whether it was all escape fantasies because I was feeling rather an outsider and unwanted in my home life. And the small rural town where I was raised had limited opportunities. I also dreamed of living in New York City well the New York City Life has already happened for me I was able to cross that off my bucket list in the 90s and early 2000s. It's almost unbelievable and incredible when i get the opportunity to actually do one of these drempt about activities. Today for example -