Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

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And, as critical as I am of her, what drew me to and kept me as a follower is only amplified in the memoir; Madia is an extremely gifted storyteller.

There are some folks with a level of hatred that rises well above toxicity into a danger zone; I guess it comes with the influencer territory. Whats weird is that basement gremlins spend all their time trying to tear down a person they have never personally known and rate a book they never read and somehow feel accomplished for doing it. Instead, Brianna gives herself and her stories space to be gloriously messy, heartwarming, impulsive, painful, joyful, wild, and everything in-between. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate-when Bertha overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. You don’t have to like someone or their work but being so filled with hate over a tragic accident that happened with her dog (whether she was reckless or not… it was an accident) and over her divorce from her husband (every story has two sides and picking sides is silly when you’re a stranger) is absurd.Brianna makes no effort to pack everything into the neat little boxes and filters that are so often expected when women tell their stories. Her beautiful words continue to stick with me as my own dogs lick the tears from my face, and remind me of the simplicity of life when I too, drove west in an unconventional vehicle. Because for the hundred or so unhappy humans spending so much energy hating her, there are literally MILLIONS who enjoy her take on the world and seeing her life unfold. Rejecting the competitive and capitalistic path set out before her, she chose to seek a truer version of happiness, a road scary, uncertain, and entirely her own.

Brianna has crafted a captivating narrative that resonates, leaving a lasting impression that lingers well after the final page. But I guess with her being fully indoctrinated into what it takes for “Instagram success” that dog tracks. Then came the horrible reviews (which she does discuss later in the book, but at the time I wasn't there yet. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Only she is brave enough to face the world and plaster those mistakes in public spaces where people have been incredibly cruel to her for being honest in this way.In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, lonely, and even desperate----when the van overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of Wyoming highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and the water jugs froze beneath her we she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she faced tough choices, hard truths, and inevitable regrets; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future.