The present day should learn from the wall that once was here.
Sometimes being a wanderer can get you lost. Who knew?
Never had I ever.
It was a hot and sticky few days in the big city.
We rode in on the bus from Pamplona, only a one hour 8.20 Euro ride. We arrived in the cool foggy mid-morning to our dismay as we were hoping to jump in the Bay of Biscay upon getting to the beach town. Looking around I saw so much more opportunities for exploration that I couldn’t…
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I started hiking the 900kms to Santiago, on to Finisterre, with no idea what to expect. I had read a couple books, did some online research, I spoke to some that experienced it themselves. The Camino is a personal journey. It’s not something that can be explained. It strips life down to its most basic…
The summer of 2016 brought me to the summit of Kilimanjaro with the most amazing team of people one could ever hope for. With a knowledgeable, friendly, and humorous guide, spent five days and nights on a safari through four national parks, seeing the big five, and camping under the stars in the Serengeti with…
The six weeks in the summer of 2017 gave me exactly what I was looking for at the time: a full on culture shock.
It’s that part of when two magnets are attracted to each other and you slowly begin to pull them apart. The magnets pull each other in and resist separation. With just a little more effort guiding in opposite directions, the bond is broken and each magnet is released from each other. This is how I…
Lists are great and all but the reality of the situation is: I have an 80L backpack (I had to get a new backpack as my previous large backpack at 50L was too small) and a 35L daypack and all the “Simplified Life” stuff needs to fit into these two bags. Not to mention I…
“As the next chapter rolls in and the seasons begin to change endings come and new beginnings form. The summer was like no other and the experiences, moments, people, and giggles shared will always be there to flow through the doorway of my mind on any given day. In those moments, there is no doubt…
Appropriate picture? Comic relief. It’s the best way I deal with stress. There are so many little things that need to be taken care of before one leaves home for a year; it can be very overwhelming. How will you pay the bills? Set up automatic payments as much as possible. Do you have a…
I’m not a very touchy feely kind of person. Logic dominates my brain. But Charlotte’s Web, any dog movie where he passes away, or most of Nicholas Sparks novels will have me sobbing uncontrollably. Whatever. I don’t get it. Emotions are sticky and gross. For the past month I have been saying a lot of…