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by csmeder 2665 days ago
After leaving my startup in 2017, I did a two month road trip. Overall it was a low cost way to travel for two months and it allowed me to re-adjust to a slower pace of life and gain perspective.

This was my itinerary:

- Yoga retreat in Northern California.

- A night in the town of Ashland (hotel)

- A couple nights in Eugene (at a friends)

- A week helping build a Cobb cottage in western Oregon. Amazing experience. (Camping)

- Week long meditation retreat outside of Portland.

- Watching the eclipse from a friend’s farm (a bunch of us camping).

- A night in Portland (at a friends home)

- A night in Boise, ID. Cool city, good food. (Hotel).

- Hot Springs

- Yellowstone (camping)

- Grand Teton, did the boat in. (Camping)

- Denver, great downtown, Celestial Tea factory tour (Stayed with friends)

- Taos New Mexico, stayed at Lama retreat center in Ram Das’ bus. Amazing experience.

- Grand Canyon (hotel)

- Sedona, beautiful. Hike to a “Energy vortex”, I’m not sure I felt anything :) but beautiful. (Hotel)

- Passing through Phoenix (hotel).

- San Diego, Wild Life Park. Amazing. (Friends place)

- San Luis Obispo, CA (passing through)

- Esalen in big Sur, hot springs, beauty, great food, Amazing.

- Back home in SF.

1 comments

Whose cottage did you help build and is there a community about this somewhere? I'd like to do this myself.
I’m not sure how to get linked into the cob building scene. But once you do you will realize there is a whole community of people who live by going from one build to another. A lot of them learned how to do it from this guy https://m.facebook.com/CobCottageCompany/

I helped a friend who wanted to build one and finally realized that dream before leaving for college in Europe by using a friends land to make it happen. Actually she was going to back out since 2-3 months isn’t really enough time to do it with a small crew and little finances but the DIY network wanted to film her for thier show and reconvinced her to do it (she submitted her idea to them at some point). Here is the link to the IMDB/Amazon video page: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7974258/

(Note, the film crew never grabbed my signature for permission to show my face, so I didn’t end up making it past the editing room floor.)