A REMARKABLE RISK OF FATE

Watch me sell my house, put everything in storage and move into a travel trailer with my husband, and my 62 lb retriever. We may be coming to an area near you!

WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG

“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.”~Jim McMahon

Zeke Olsen living his dream

Meeting Zeke Olsen is lot like walking into his restaurant, playful, warm and friendly.

In 2006 Zeke & Lisa decided to sell their business and real estate in Seattle and they moved to the coast to retire (someday). In 2007 after counting all the grains of sand on the beach, catching entirely too many crab, and collecting more agates from the beach than one should, Zeke decided his encore career should be his passion owning a BBQ shack on the beach and the BONE PILE BBQ was born.

He tells me moving into a small community from a big city was met with some skepticism from the locals.  The restaurant has abundant signs that tell you Zeke and Lisa are fully committed to supporting their community, helping with fundraisers for fireman and schools.  It is also has some interesting flair (decor and signs) that indicate they don’t take themselves or life so seriously that they forget what is important. Bottom line, they are risk takers who seized an opportunity and made it work. I encourage you to go and meet them and have some BBQ.

Zeke grew up in the central Atlantic States, and his family mostly live in the Southeastern US. Consequently Zeke has had the opportunity to eat and learn the art of BBQ from childhood.

Sometimes the next step in our lives is just a matter of putting all the pieces together and taking one gigantic leap of faith.

What do you dream of?

Where is the place that fills your soul?

What is it that you do and take for granted?

What would you be willing to risk to get there?

It is alot and admittedly, I do not have all the answers for myself–yet. Still meeting people that have made life changing choices is inspiring to me that it can be done, that people are still doing risky things even when the chips are down in our economy and the morale is more than a quart low.  We  are all survivors and that puts us in a new category of those who have lived through hard times. In some strange twist of fate, you and I can not afford to play it safe.

” I costs nothing to dream, and everything not to.”

Kathy Vick, Reinvention Coach, Muse and Traveler, Walking her talk and Taking the ride.

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