Hello and Welcome!
I am Brianna the owner of Beautiful Hobo. Let me first say I am so excited YOU are here!
I am SO excited I am here!
I have been thinking about writing a blog for years but this is the year I am going to make it happen!!! 2019 is MY YEAR! Maybe it is going to be yours too? Hopefully, we can make 2019 and every year after the BEST! So once again welcome and thank you for checking out my site!
What is this?
Beautiful Hobo is a “lifestyle” blog. I share recipes that I love and maybe if you are lucky, epic fails! A place to write about travel, outdoor adventures, and creating cool things! At least that is the plan! When you research starting a blog they encourage you to write the “about” page before you may have gotten this blogging thing completely figured out. (Did I mention I am a newbie? It’s cool, I’m a quick learner!)
I am what I would call a “creative” cook. My list of food intolerances isn’t that long but includes some very common ingredients; onions, garlic, dairy, and eggs. So when I do the cooking I avoid those items (almost all the time, sometimes I cheat and eat eggs and dairy). I am not allergic to these items, they certainly won’t kill me if I eat a bit. However, if I do eat them I don’t feel very well for a while. Onions and garlic are the WORST!
I love to travel and I live in a National Park, currently, I am in Sequoia National Park but that could change. For the last 6 years, I have been moving seasonally with my husband who is a Park Ranger. Last year he got a permanent job in Sequoia so we are here for the foreseeable future! It is AMAZING! So writing about hiking trips, adventures, and camping advice for this park and others I have been to seems like a great way to share all of the beautiful photos I have taken on our adventures over the years.
I also plan to share info on any DIY projects I work on or really just anything in life. It is quite interesting living in a National Park, this one particular is quite remote. My cell phone doesn’t work until I have driven for at least an hour and a half from my house and although there is a small campground market across the river from my house the closest store is an hour down the mountain. It is an amazing place but with only about 30 people living up here in the winter it certainly has its blessings and its challenges!
Why?
So why would I write a blog, well I suppose there are several reasons. As I mentioned before I live pretty remotely, which means in the summer there is generally a plethora of jobs; park jobs, concession jobs or non-profit jobs up here in the park. During the winter the options are quite limited and if I am honest not usually ones I am very interested in doing. So if I can work from home, create my own schedule and make enough money that I don’t have to just take any job I can get, well, that would just make my life so AMAZING! Feeling dependent on whatever job I can get and not having options is the worst!
Second, we are planning on being at our current park for several more years but in the long run, it is likely that we will move again. It is often easier to move up to better positions by moving to a new park. So blogging would be a job I could keep doing even when we switch location. I could stop looking for a new job every time we move, which would be AWESOME (That was every 3-6 months for 5 years!!!!)
Third, I am hoping that Andy and I will be able to add to our family soon. It is a dream of mine to raise children with that man and in my ideal world, I can stay home with them, working from home.
Having a career I love, that I can do anywhere!
Blogging seems like it has that possibility! I mean if I can make a living writing about food, hiking and making stuff! I will be one happy camper!
So that is why I am starting a blog. The starting part is easy, I am sure if you have ever thought about it you know all you have to do is head over to BlueHost. Easy as pie!
Then there is the hard part!
Like figuring out what to write about and how! Taking photos or finding photos to use. Oh, and figuring out how to make your website theme work how you want it to! I haven’t even touched on the things you have to do to make an income! LOL, Somedays it is definitely overwhelming and I want to just give up!
Then I remember why I am going to make this happen! I give myself a little love and understanding, and pick myself up and try again! I am not a natural-born writer, I am dyslexic and a very slow reader! That all being said I have never let those things hold me back in life and I don’t plan to now! Like everything in life, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! So I will keep practicing.
I hope to look back in 2020 and think you go, girl! I’m so glad you got that started, and then laugh a bit at my beginning posts!
Who am I
I feel like I have covered a lot of that but I can elaborate. I mean if you have read this far you are probably pretty interested! (YES, you are hooked! Join my mailing list so you know when I have a fresh post!)
I am originally from the Pacific Northwest and consider myself to be “granola,” not quite a hippie but not that normal either. I mean I fit in just fine in the PNW but I was defiantly an oddball in North Dakota. Honestly though, what is “normal.”
I ended up in Chicago and lived there for 8 years. I worked at Goose Island Restaurant and Brewery next to Wrigley Field. It was at Goose that I met some of my FAVORITE PEOPLE EVER! I even met my husband, not at Goose but thru Goose friends. I LOVE Chicago and although I am happy living in the woods, I will always love Chicago and look back fondly at my years there!
After 5 years of dating, Andy and I got engaged and left Chicago so that he could pursue a career with the Park Service, hoping to change the world!
We then spent the next 5 years moving every 3-6 months for new seasonal park ranger jobs. It had it’s up and downs for sure and I will share more stories about those journies later! Overall I wouldn’t change it for the world. Sometimes I look back and miss it and other times I am just so grateful that I don’t have to pack the car up again to drive across the country. I am so happy to be sleeping in my own bed!
So that sums up my life.
That doesn’t really tell you who I am, that is a much harder thing to say. I will say that I am creative, I love to make things that is defiantly when I am at my happiest. Cooking, baking, painting, woodworking, crafting, taking photos, mentally doing interior design.
Food, I am pretty obsessed with food. I am not a foodie but I am constantly thinking about my next meal and new fun dishes to create.
I love my friends and family, and absolutely adore my husband! In my free time if I am not making something then I want to be outside! Hiking, swimming or just enjoying the fresh air. Last summer I got to work in the campground, it was great so much outside time!
Well, folks, I think this seems long enough for today but I hope you keep following me and I will continue to share my life with you!
Cheers,
