Good afternoon your Majesties!
Here I am, two days no writing. We spent two nights total in the camp spout outside McCloud and almost three days. The boys really enjoyed the water and I enjoyed the company.
Atreyu is making such big swimming progress with a new float support and pool noodle. He’s pushing his butt up and putting his head under water and kicking like a champ. Before long he’ll be doing breast strokes. Galixy was more into the mud banks and shallow water splashes. I think CJ was a big influence to Atreyu’s confidence to float.
CJ is a playful and humorous guy. He tried being playful with me to try and get me in the water, but I was super quick to set my boundaries on that. If I say “no”, I mean I will be beyond upset to even be playfully forced. He’s also very respectful and mellow. The fact that he can take all my shit talk and laugh about the truth makes it easy on me with conversations. And feeling comfortable speaking my mind. I asked him to come along with us.
And that crazy fool quit his job and grabbed his clothes.
So we headed to his friends house to reup on my medicine. The two guys there Greg and Alan were blown away by CJ’s up talk of this “cool girl with her life.” Greg said he was jealous of his leaving and if we wouldn’t take him along. I was glad to have the excuse of super max capacity. I don’t even know how CJ’s gonna do sleeping. I don’t need addicts on my bus, regardless of how legal the addiction is (says the addict XD)
We ended up staying in front of Gregs. The boys weren’t very happy. I think their sunburns added to the discord more than anything. I went to bed earlier than all of them. Alan had left rather unwillingly while I was getting my hands clean in Gregs kitchen sink. My main priority with staying there was to give CJ a place he could comfortably sleep. I really don’t think he realizes that he won’t be sleeping in my bug anytime soon. He ended up not sleeping at all, so now he’s over tired and goofy. If things don’t go “as expected” Greg offered to buy his bus ticket back home. That kind of reassurance is a good thing to have. He gets to have an adventure regardless of how our friendship turns. Admittedly there’s romantic interest and the kids are absolutely stoked to have him along right now.
We got on the road and stopped at a Loves. It wasn’t really the best spange, but CJ used to work there so he wanted to hang on to his home for just a minute longer, see his step brother. We got some pictures taken, shared some smiles and made $7, before I put twenty in to get out of the sun and out of the tiny parking lot.
Now we’re in Checotah. We stopped at a Walmart for a minute but I just really wanted to get out of the heat, so we moved to a playground. No charging outlets here. Some shade, but seriously not enough. It’s 84*F. I had a dog pee on me earlier, so I guess that’s lucky….?
I feel like I’m pulling a Housey into my travelers world and it seems almost ridiculous how many things I feel are common sense in this life that turn out to be my three year conditioning. I also kind of feel like he belongs in this world. I will see how far I will take him and what we will teach each other.
I just got visited by the cutest raga-muphins. The boys are all playing at the park and these three kids came up asking if I lived in this van. They highly admired it. We got a chance to talk about little boys in dresses and how fun and toys and clothes aren’t really gendered. These kids were super blown away by Bugus and my animals.
CJ is enjoying the smiles bugus gets. It is an experience in and of itself.
Got little on my mind and have done very little it seems….
Loving you ❤
Matilda the Bugus 