Orcas

Orcas
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Saturday, August 7, 2010

3 Weeks and Counting!!

So today is day 1.  These words I write right now are few of many you read i hope.  My name is Paul Shelton.  I am 32.  I have never done this.  I am scared.  I am single.  I have recently quit my job in the retail cellular sales world after 6 years to pursue the dream of finding my niche, my career in this "money obsessed" life as a professional sea kayaker in the #1 Sea Kayaking destination in North America!  No i havent planned.  No money and fame are not the goal.  No i havent saved.  Yes i realize my mother will be highly skeptical (and she may not know, shhhh,) but "mom"......  im doing this because i will die working a job i despise in order to pay the bills.  I am a risk taker and this is a calculated risk i must take. 
I am at a crossroads bloggereaders and i have decided i am done following the "safe" road, im acting on my intuition for the first time in 10 years.  The last time i followed intuition it brought me the love of my life, which i lost suddenly and without warning.  So what i can trust is my passion for paddling, my honesty about this, and my drive to push this sport as well as finding myself and at the end of the maze, possibly the love of a great woman agian. 
What i am asking if you are here right now is that you click back occasionally.  This blog may find me posting failure, it may find me living my dream, or it may find me drifting limply in waters hypothermic year round.  Regardless........I move to ORCAS ISLAND, WASHINGTON somewhere near Sept. 1st and i promise to bring you all each step i take and i hope i end up in magazines and not in the obits.  Mostly I hope i find friendship, love, community, you, and myself in this adventure.  More to come, finding a charger for my Camera at the moment lol!