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My Life, My Journey

I am a proud New York born Spanish chica who spent my time divided between the back then rough mobster and brass knuckle filled South Brooklyn and jammin’ Jersey Shore (fist pump!). Living la vida loca, I juggled school, training as an elite gymnast, life in NJ, life in Brooklyn, working as a young kid and much more. In looking back, I was a natural born traveler, outdoors sport kinda chic, ultra independent, super ambitious while trying to seek a balance.

As an adult I am not that different less the fist pumps and brass knuckles! I put myself through college (even though my ex tells people he paid for it, somehow I am still paying off my student loan, haha), I worked from the bottom to the top of a career in Cancer research, I travel everywhere and anywhere and get outside. Most of all, everywhere I go, I meet one or more amazing souls each time and at least a handful of hilarious stories to tell. I get this kind of life is not for everyone, but it is kind of the normal life for me.

I was inspired to start this blog by a beautiful friend and instantly was successful with sponsorship offers and so many things coming from every direction. Too much coming at me and too much commercialization kind of stuff that I just burned out. I took a step back and focused on my advanced studies, growing the organization I work for and worked on healing from a weird and ugly finger injury.

In that period of “blog hibernation”, I started thinking about what direction to head in with this blog. I decided I still want to interview folks, maybe some health tips here and there, but put forth most of my focus on the short reflection/inspirational posts to take readers through my life, my journey.

At last, my angle, my comfort and what I think might be the reason why I wanted to blog in the first place before the storm of coolness whisked me away into another direction.

Photo credit to Sophia at http://www.sophiaharcourt.com

I hope this blog inspires everyone to:

• Explore the outdoors,
• Experience stepping out of one’s comfort zone,
• Inspire and help others,
• Travel at least to one different place every year,
• Try new things,
• And live a happy, healthy life.

Bye guys, gotta get on a plane and get to the crag!

Yours truly,

DorisTheExploris