Our time here is almost to an end

We have really enjoyed staying here on the outskirts of Albuquerque and seeing all of the little surrounding mountain towns. We have truly had the best of both worlds where we could go enjoy the city and then retreat to our little rustic rv park in the mountains. This is probably our favorite park so far because of location and its laid back vibe. It has started to feel a lot like home but alas we must move on and find even better things I'm sure!

I've been busy working. Yes, working I tell you. We have determined that if we ever want some kind of rural land we are going to have to figure out a way to make money from home. I've been working my fingers to the bone on knittting projects, trying to come up with some cool dread tams, headbands, and such. I'm certainly not expecting to make a real living but you have to understand that I'm the kind of person who never follows through with anything. I talk myself out of it for aforementioned reasons and ego talk gets in the way. This time I've got to focus and follow through, even if I only sell one hat on etsy. We have talked about maybe doing a combo vending setup with small knitted items and other wholesale stuff that is small enough to take in the rv like incense, perfume oils, etc. I have to at least TRY to do this. I know other people have been able to make it work. If I could get some kind of business off the ground and Riki could start selling some of the beautiful landscape photography he has taken here, maybe we could make it work. Who knows.

Then I keep going back to the doula thing which would definitely be a more guaranteed income. The problem is I don't know how well that would work in a more rural setting. At this point I don't even have a car. So I don't know. I'm not completely setting that aside as an option but for now I want to focus on my knitting and hope that by the cooler months I can see some kind of side income there. Thanks to Tara from the Follow That Bus crew for giving me that little push I needed:) I was always knitting something and she would be like "hey, you should sell that", with all kinds of marketing ideas because she is just like that, lol. I enjoy being creative but I'm not so good at putting it into a business perspective like she is so I really needed her influence and encouragement. I think that sometimes we meet people on our journey who are soulmates of sorts that we are supposed to meet at that point in time for various reasons. I've been seeing that a lot on this trip and she is a prime example.

Heck, if we even had some old fashioned skill that would be marketable to an intentional community that might be beneficial as well. So I feel that delving into that is something I need to do right now and call it work...even though I might not be getting paid for it yet.

In a couple of days we are headed to Taos to stay with some gracious blog friends who shall remain anonymous since I don't know if they want me to mention them or not. In the meantime we have a couple of solar panels to install (yes, we got some solar panels!) and I've got a sun oven coming in the mail today.