I gotta go Tea Tea...hey you know me....

The road to Anywhere begins with a single step.

Did your mother ask you if "you went before you left the house?" like my mother did? And usually the question was posed after you left the house and then it was to late to go back and do the right thing?

I was raised in a Navy family. We moved every 15 months. We were good travelers. We could hold our bladders for entire states and then our bladders were synchronized with my fathers, who did the driving and was in control of the bio break stops. Texas was a tough state to make it through! But this blog entry is not about bladder control. It's about a new road and first steps.

I went to my hangar today to visit my plane Peg. One of the consequences of out of control diabetes is you can't get a third class medical certificate necessary to pilot a plane. Right now, I can't fly, or I can't fly alone legally but I can fly with another pilot in command or a flight instructor. So I went to sit with Peg and plan my course of action to get back up in the air. Making payments on a plane you can't fly is quite a motivator.

In the past, on the way to the airport I would stop and get a Dr. Pepper. And that's what I did today. Only I made a "smart choice" and got a sugar free Diet Dr. Pepper. It was a habit. A nice habit that I thought I would miss until I started my Cave Woman Diet. I gave up sodas a month ago, not by choice so much as it just gave me that "not quite right" feeling, my body and my taste buds just naturally rejected it and as a result I have lost 4 pounds effortlessly. I did a happy dance on the scale this morning when I saw that.

So now I'm faced with having to make another change, another small step. How will this effect my road travels? Dr. Pepper was my constant companion. And then I had visions of sun tea slowly brewing on the dashboard of my rental car. Easily packable, light weight refreshing Celestial Seasonings Sun Tea bags carefully stuffed in water bottles going down the road to Anywhere. That's not so bad. In fact my inner Cave Woman is digging it. Since I began this Cave Woman Diet, eating nothing that wasn't available to my fore mothers (well there are exceptions, I love Splenda) I have developed a taste for the natural sweetness in life. Like sun tea on the dash and road side tea parties.

Hey! Maybe I can make sun tea from the waters of Da Nile?