Questions and Answers with Kelly Parsons

What do you consider the biggest barrier to setting off on a trip like yours?

Finding the capacity to not listen to my fears and listen to my heart. Its OK to dream big and follow them as unreservedly as I can. Living in the moment is frightening until I see the wisdom in its benefits.

Lake Macdonald, Glacier National Park, Montana

Around 7:40 I had a nagging thought; go to the lake, go to the lake, go to the lake. It would not stop its soft persistent nagging. So, I got up and went. Thinking I may submerse myself in the warm glow of a setting sun and gaze in wonder upon mesmerizing reflections of the mountain scene before me, I perched myself on a more secluded gravel bar.