Category: Misc & Etc.
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Travel Quote: “Many a Trip Continues…”
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” –John Steinbeck
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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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400,000 Miles and Counting
We have the greatest car ever. Our Honda CRV has been with us for many years, and today we celebrated a huge milestone — the odometer rolled over to 400,000 miles! After so many miles and memories, this car feels less like a vehicle and more like an extension of our family. Over the years,…
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When Blog Friends Meet: The Hungry Travellers
I had been following along with Phil and Michaela of The Hungry Travellers as they traveled the world sharing incredible destinations, cultural experiences, and what might just be the ultimate example of retirement done right. They always seemed to be packing their bags for another adventure, and I loved following along through each new country…