Fairy Fortunes by Ruby Ruse

I saw some beautiful gowns on Pinterest. They were probably AI generated. They look like fairy costumes and it makes me remember that I love performing at fairy festivals. But I was wondering…what if I found a discarded bridesmaid dress in a beautiful shade of pink or green and I added crochet flowers and glass beads? I’ve always been a bit of a rustic fairy but my second costume was made of this truly beautiful fabric brocade which suggested I was craving a costume of a more refined status. I need something that can help me breathe though in the Midwest heat. And something more simple - a dress is just one piece instead of the over four piece set that went with my brocade.

The road so far…

I’m in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I didn’t expect to be in Wyoming I was headed to Colorado from Nevada and this was the route the GPS said was quickest.

Well, I’ve experienced:
Tucson, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona
Camp Verde, Arizona
Quartzite, Arizona
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Barstow, California
Palo Alto, California
Nevada City, California
Virginia City, California
Salt Lake City, Utah
Rawlins, Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Once in Colorado I’ll be on Episode 2 of Supernatural. Someone really needs to tell Dean Wi******er (or rather his writer Eric Kripke) that Colorado is NOT 6 hours from Nevada County California even if you don’t get squirrel brain looking for ghosts in Virginia City, Nevada.

I love the belt buckle, power outlet, and iguana but I’m not a 26 year old fictional character. Episode 3 is in Wisconsin which is simply too close to Chicago to skirt by. I’m still going to collect some adventures between Colorado and Illinois but I’m calling it. Moo Moo and Holstein are ready to go home to their own bed and I am too.

I think there is a ghost standing next to me in this photo! What do you think?

There is more from Virginia City, Nevada on Instagram!

More front the road trip. There’s more content on Instagram.

I’m road tripping from California to Illinois. Today I’m in Petaluma, California to see the World’s Largest Power Outlet! Follow Fairy Fortunes on Instagram for more road trip content!

2025 would make my top ten list of the worst years of my life right along side 2024…

But there were beautiful moments. And I learned so many important lessons. I decided to do a reflection project. I read my journal from 2025 to find the top 12 lessons I want to remember in 2026:
1. I keep trying to prove I am worthy of attention
2. I don’t want to help everyone
3. “Help” is the safe word for STOP
4. Where fear is, love cannot be
5. “If” is a wonderful thing
6. I’d rather deal with the mole hill before it becomes a mountain
7. The comparison game is exhausting! I want to stop comparing my suffering with others
8. Someone is “right” for me when they hate hurting me
9. Yoda did a disservice to humanity with the movie line, “Do or Do Not, there is no Try…” if the only options are Do or Do Not, then the only option is Do NOT because in order to DO you’d have to TRY
10. It doesn’t matter who is “wrong” what matters is that someone is
11. How now Brown Cow?
You survive! You’re alive
Which way dawns today?
12. Procrastination is dysfunctional waiting. It’s what a child sees as “adulting.” To a child, an adult waits, an adult delays, an adult never does anything NOW. And if I’m really dysfunctional, I practice waiting so perfectly that now never comes.