Backpacking for me has been an incredible journey of peeling off layers of stress, confused identity, reclaiming confidence, and creating a vision of my long term future.  Before backpacking, I had not felt free enough to create a vision of what a future home might be for me.  As an example, when my lease was ending in November 2018, before I lost my job, I experienced a rare complete mental block when coming to a decision about where to move next…