Category: Misc & Etc.
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Year in Review : 2024
Updated in 2025 for easier navigation- relive the adventures from 2024 below And here we are again, at the close of another year. This season always feels tender to me — a time to sit in the twilight of one year and look ahead to the dawn of the next. As I think about how…
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Travel Quote: “A Journey…starts Much Earlier and Is Really Never Over…”
“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much eariler and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists…
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Travel Quote: “The Trail is the Thing…”
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.” –Louis L’ Amour
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Travel Quote: “Does the Destination Matter?…”
“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our…
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A Something of Nothing
Things have been a little quiet over here with us lately. Well, quiet in the sense of taking off for adventures here and there anyway. Behind the scenes it has been busy and slightly chaotic, on top of just being too hot and sticky lately to really want to get out much. Brad has been…
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Travel Quote: “Afoot and Light-Hearted I take to the Open Road…”
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.” –Walt Whitman, Songs for the Open Road: Poems…
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Travel Quote: “…off to Somewhere Else Tomorrow…”
“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” –Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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When Blog Friends Meet :: The Hungry Travellers
I have been following along with Phil and Michaela of The Hungry Travellers for years as they have traveled the world, had amazing cultural experiences, and given the all time greatest example of what retirement should be. They are constantly packing their bags and heading out for adventures in incredible places. I always look forward…
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Travel Quote: “We Wanderers, Ever Seeking the Lonelier Way…”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, an it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given…
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Travel Quote: “…Homesick for a Place You’ve Never Been To…”
“Every Dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” –Judith Thurman