“HOW TO” #VANLIFE

The Seven Cardinal Rules of Life: ✨ Make peace with your past so it won’t disturb your present. ✨ What other people think of you is none of your business. ✨ Time heals almost everything. Give it time. ✨ No one is in charge of your happiness, except you. ✨ Don’t compare your life to others and don’t judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about. ✨ Stop thinking too much. It’s alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it. ✨ Smile. You don’t own all the problems in the world. 📸 @13_rad

One week down of healing post procedure for pre-cancerous cells. Healing has included a canceled Japan flight and weird yet normal side effects. This entire process has turned my plans upside down cancelling one international trip after the other. I’ve surrendered to the present instead of the plan and see the silver lining = I’m home to practice skateboarding, bikes rides with @hhawk and morning ocean walks. I am exactly where I need to be. A few more weeks and I will be back to skiing and surfing. Hoping the biopsy shows doctors removed all pre-cancer cells. Thanks for your caring comments and messages!

Is it true Is it kind Is it necessary —— All mental check marks my cousin taught me to run through before speaking. Work in progress.

I repeat to myself “you are safe, you are confident, you are secure” then my adrenaline kicks-in and I just go. Was I scared heliskiing for the first time in my life? I always believed heliskiing could only be carried out by athletes with a blue check mark next to their Instagram, who's bio reads “professional skier”. However, @powderbirdheliski has designated landing zones and takes you to terrain based on YOUR ability. I repeat you DO NOT have to be a badass bomb level skier. I geared up with a transmitter, airbag backpack, shovel, and probe, then went through safety training for riding and unloading from the chopper. Today was my first time skiing in the backcountry … much less arriving by a helicopter dropping me off the side of a mountain into DEEEP POWDER. Powder I am just learning. Powder that takes a different technique with wider and longer skis. Powder you’re leaning back a little more. Powder keeping your feet together closer. Powder using bunny hops to keep you from sinking down during turns. I fell twice but had a blast. Was I scared heliskiing for the first time in my life? Honestly, I thrive on trying “scary” things and @powderbirdheliski made me feel comfortable and confident. Swipe right to travel in the chopper with me.

It’s not a private jet, it’s Taos Air. A private jet experience (I’m not by myself on this flight) without the cost PLUS this plane has 100% carbon offset. How so?! @skitaos is the first and ONLY ski resort that’s a B-Corporation. To offset the carbon footprint from the jet, @skitaos invests in renewable energy. Cue setting up wind turbines in my home state of Oklahoma. You won't find single use plastic easily on the mountain … there aren’t even plastic trash bags and their restaurants source local ingredients instead of pre-packaged or frozen ingredients. In two hours, I went from San Diego direct to powder. Direct flights also out of Los Angeles, Dallas and Austin. Airline Perks: 🎿 Ski and Snowboard Rentals Included ✈️ No TSA ✈️ Fly out of Carlsbad Airport ✈️ Arrive 30 minutes prior to departure 🧳 Two free checked bags 🍪 Unlimited high-quality snacks + drinks 💵 One-Way starting at $125 🚐 Free Airport Shuttle

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These are the people who taught me how to ski. Meet my cousins Brooke and James (swipe right). Technically my cousin Brooke who married James. My mother introduced them when I was 10-years-old. Brooke just moved back from guiding and teaching English in Costa Rica and re-started states life in Tulsa, Oklahoma with us. After 9 years together they married. In my early 20’s, Brooke and James started gifting me experiences for Christmas. They rented a cabin big enough for our immediate family and drove us 14 hours from Tulsa to Crested Butte, Colorado. They paid for my ski school, lift ticket, rentals and off to the bunny slopes I soaked in what the instructor said. James would come back to the condo telling us how he skied “double blacks and hit 40 miles per hour.” My eyes were wide open. Now that I have built these social platform based off chasing those same life experiences of my own, I am in a place to give back to them. This weekend @skitaos treated the three of us to a suite at @theblaketaos, lift tickets, a mountain guide, cat ride, the spa, and the list goes on …. James and I are now bombing double blacks together, weaving through moguls and trees. Thank you to the people who taught me how to ski. Also, it’s Brooke’s birthday! Please wish her well. 📸 @mikehawkins

I woke up before dawn this morning (which carried over from the start of my sleep) with an inclining or maybe more an intuition. I need to change my Australia ticket. Not because of the fires. Because of my health. Two days after Christmas, I was set to undergo surgery for pre-cancerous cells. When that had to be cancelled last minute, I took the chance to say - I’m done putting my life on hold, I need to get out and explore again. However, the calendar stared reality in my face. The day I would land on a different continent, 15 hours away, would be the day this procedure was rescheduled for. So, for once in my life, I chose smart over spontaneous. My decision making isn’t historically this way. It’s whatever I want that feels right and leads to more life. While Australia would fulfill that immediate goal, choosing my health would lead to living a longer life and circle back to that objective long term. Here’s to January 22. After that, it’s full blast off. Thanks @united for the flight credit. I’m rescheduling for March!

“Only when you’re with me I get a little dizzy and blurry like the sea spray.” - @jackbotts