Replacing Old Memories

Colleen Songs
Jan 22, 2018
2 min read

This past weekend my Husband, Grant and I went RV shopping.

We recently sold my 1999 heavy duty, custom, off-road Landrover Discovery, complete with rooftop tent and winch.

The complete opposite of the camping unit I once co-owned in my life before I met my Husband of today:

the unit I take you for a journey with in my memoir,

INHALE by Colleen Songs.

The Landrover was my dream vehicle of a life that I always imagined for myself, void of anyone else.

Perhaps it was imprinted from a past life.

Perhaps from my too-shy-to-try teenage fantasy of safaries in Africa as a world famous photographer and writer.

I enjoyed one summer with Landy before 'quickly deciding' (almost falling off the ladder to go pee in the middle of the night as a howling pack of wolves curled the hair on the back of my neck) that it belonged to someone who was younger, adventurous, bolder and unafraid to climb those out-back vistas to play with the wolves.

It was like having a mountain horse and only riding her in an arena!

But I discovered alot in the year that I had Landy, a gift from Grant to pursue my dreams once again!

I discovered that:

Snowbanks were never an issue and made great targets.

That I do not want to ever hold back on my dreams!

I may have to alter them to fit my present, but NEVER hold back!

To gear down to climb higher!

That I can live past the past and not let it control what I enjoyed long before the past ever happened.

Thank you Grant!

Thank you, Landy!

I love camping!

I loved camping with my parents during the summer as a kid, exploring the areas where Dad graded highways from the Yukon to Vancouver Island!