Zackberridge’s Weblog

Hello to whomever is reading this.   After my return from Europe I made plans to fly to Bar Harbor Maine the following week and begin my farming adventures, however, 2 days before my flight I woke up with the Mumps!  Can you believe it?  I mean, who actually gets the Mumps?   Well apparently I’m someone who gets them (or got them, rather).  Being that the Mumps are a virus, there was nothing I could do but sit around the house for 2 weeks and rest while it took its course, thus putting my plans on hold.  Well I made plans, again, to fly out on sunday the 14th september, but who came knocking on Houston’s door the wee hours of the 13th?  Thats right, big Ike.  So unfortunately my plans were put off for nearly 3 more weeks (not only due to Ike, but a few other reasons as well).  Cabin fever is REAL!!

  Now I’m happy to say that Ive found another farm to begin (I never heard back from Maine), and later this week I will fly to Atlanta, Georgia and begin at  a farm located in Milledgville,  2 hours SE of Atlanta.  I plan to stay there for a month, return home for my brothers birthday (Ive missed it the past few years), and leave for another month at another location, and finally returning mid-late december for a friends graduation as well as the holidays. 

My ultimate mid-term goal is a take a flight at the end of the year to Hawaii and work the farms out there for 6 month to 1 year.  And if all goes well in paradise I might just find a massage job, as well as bar tending job, and make a happy living until I’m ready for something else.   I’m leaving all options a possibility and feel that I have the power to do anything I want and to be anywhere I please.   Of course I may have a change of heart at any last minute, but for now these are my plans and I hope you will follow my journey while they slowly unravel themselves transforming into my reality.  Cheers!