This is one of our favorite poems, and one that feels especially poignant right now. And comforting. We’re in Idaho, traveling toward Yellowstone. Hoping that we won’t get snowed out of spending a few days there. Thank you all for your continued love and support. How fortunate we are to have you in our lives. […]
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As of mid-morning today, we left the Bellingham area to continue on our journey. We’ve been here for eight days, offering support and receiving at least as much in return from Kevin’s family and friends. There has been almost an equal measure of pain and joy as we have shared our memories of Kevin. The […]
Ihave a couple more blogs completed about our time on Lopez, but I don’t have the heart to post them right now. We lost our dear friend Kevin on Saturday, and we are grief stricken. There is no space for anything right now but thoughts and memories of Kevin, sharing stories and photos of him, […]
Three mornings a week, we teach programs at the Nature Center at Spencer Spit State Park. The Nature Center is conveniently located right next door to our campsite; as a result, we have kids screeching to a halt on their bikes throughout the day to investigate. A sign out front advertises our programs: Plants and […]
Not quite six weeks into our journey, we’re finally finding our stride. The emails and phone calls we’ve received in the past week from friends have helped immensely. So has meeting new friends in our travels. Everyone, without exception, has been generous in offering support and encouragement. Undoubtedly we’ll trip and stumble again—but that’s true […]
I am deeply touched by all of the emails that we’ve received in the past couple of days. I feel buoyed by the love, support, understanding, and encouragement you’ve sent our way. We’ve heard from friends who miss us, friends who have traveled full-time and understand the unique challenges of this lifestyle, and my dad, […]
Because we’ve traveled for up to three months at a time, we thought we were prepared for a life of full-time travel. We were clearly deluded. We’ve been on this journey for almost five weeks, and we’re STILL trying to settle in to this new way of living. (I have spent more than one sleepless […]
I guess it had to happen at some point in our travels. The Monday afternoon after we moved camp from the eastern end of the Columbia Gorge to the western end, Eric said, “Every part of my body hurts.” At first, I attributed it to the strenuous uphill hike we had just completed at the […]
There’s enough going on in the Columbia Gorge to occupy a lifetime. We only had eight days there, so we took the smorgasbord approach and sampled a bit of everything that appealed to us. It was just the right way to experience what the gorge has to offer, and left us wanting to return for […]
While in Joseph, we took a day trip to the Zumwalt Prairie, a Nature Conservancy preserve about 25 miles east of town and even further out into the middle of nowhere. There’s a beautiful sign proclaiming that we had indeed arrived at the preserve, but there were no discernible trails. We flagged down the young […]
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