• Seeing someone's most honest form, and no one judging them for it
• Accepting an invitation to dance, fully knowing that you don't know how, but feeling comfortable enough to recognize that neither of you actually cares
• Sharing your fears for the future ahead, while still recognizing that there is hope
• Appreciating someone's "unusual" hobbies and actually bonding over it
• Following your instincts and stepping out of your comfort zone to explicitly show that you care
• Challenging each other to be your best selves
• Seeing someone's worst side, but still being willing to help and extend grace
• Trying to escape from your own head, then realizing you actually can't, so you get up and do the work needed
• Welcoming life's impromptu plans (saying yes to adventures!)
• Recognizing that you can't say yes to everything 😅 (so now you choose your battles)
• Telling others you need help, and sharing the story that you are receiving help, without feeling any shame
• Shamelessly requesting a hug to hide the tears (or else it would have been so awkward LOL)
• Contacting your best friends to share an emotionally charged experience that you can't contain within yourself (and it's so satisfying every single time because they're always ready to listen and hype you up)
• Understanding (at last) the root cause of all of it (the soul was very bone tired and needed to pause and rest)
• Feeling recharged because of someone's presence
• Understanding that slow progress is still progress (which is much much better than standing still)
• Sharing moon photos (because you love the sky)
• Forming a team with a fellow driver in finding a space in a parking lot 🤩
• Having deep talks after a morning walk/jog
• Asking a question that resulted to forming a new connection
• Paying forward positive energy because someone was human enough to understand the situation
• Showing up to learn something, then realizing you're getting much more than that (life lessons that move mountains)
• Handling a mishap without the lingering resentments, and instead focusing on the solution (it already happened, it is what it is)
• Learning something and recognizing you won't go back to old ways after this
• Cupping someone's cheek as you lean in for a kiss
• Wearing your heart on your sleeve, and not backing away from it

• This mission reminded me to also overthink the positive. We often prepare for what can go wrong: but what about what can go right?
• Just like Orion spacecraft, we sometimes drift off course. But that’s part of the process. What matters is correcting our trajectory: those small adjustments that bring us back to our path. Even the spacecraft uses short OTC burns to stay on course. In the same way, it’s important for me to pause and ask: am I still heading toward the life I want?
• Our childhood dreams inspire us to achieve great things in life, through passion and grit.
• Seeing earth from space reminded me how small we are: and yet how meaningful this life can be. It brings me back to that childlike wonder I’ve always had.

Destination #1A: Rainbow Slide

Destination #3: Moana Café