These are difficult times. Surreal. Like everyone else we know, we’re trying to find balance in a world that has suddenly been turned upside down. Our travel plans have fallen prey to the pandemic, and we’re staying put in Apalachicola for who knows how long. Nature and poetry are two things that soothe my soul […]
Archive for Musings
I can’t seem to move forward in life without first taking time to look back and reflect. That is never truer than at the beginning of a new year. (I know, I know…we’re already halfway through January. You should be used to me by now.) Along with looking back, my attention is being pulled far […]
We knew from the outset that we were only going to get a glimpse of the Adirondacks. This enormous swath of wilderness covers more than 9000 square miles, from the center of New York state to the Canadian border. More of an issue, though, is that we abruptly hit ‘travel burnout’ at the beginning of […]
I‘ve been trying to write a blog post for the past several weeks, and I’m having a hard time. Our blog is mired in the Finger Lakes and we’re now in Maine, after a fabulous summer in the Maritimes. Meanwhile, my mind is running wild and I’m having difficulties reeling it in. This has been […]
We left Florida yesterday, after two months that have seemed both brief and interminable. This has not been an easy visit. My parents have lost ground since we were here last year, both physically and mentally. It is a gift of our fulltime travels that we’re able to spend a chunk of time with them […]
We’re in the mountains of West Texas, where it’s currently 22 degrees and the landscape is decorated with hoar frost. It is REALLY cold, but it looks very festive. I know that January 1st only has as much meaning as we ascribe to it. Nonetheless, there’s something about the dawning of another year that always […]
We’ve been fulltime travelers for five-and-a-half years now. Every year, we circle back to our hometown in southern Oregon for a few weeks to ready ourselves for another year of travel. No matter how organized we think we are, it’s always a tornado of activity: various appointments, projects on our trailer, maintenance on our home, […]
We’ve been on Lopez Island since the first of July, happily ensconced in our summer camp hosting gig. Meanwhile, our blog is far away, both in time and distance. It’s a bit daunting when I think of being so far behind. Much worse is when I start comparing myself to other bloggers. Bloggers who stay […]
Five years ago this month we left our home in Oregon to embark on this nomadic adventure. Five years! It seems like the blink of an eye. Time has always seemed to go too swiftly for my taste. Traveling, it seems to go by even more quickly. I remind myself to be present for this […]
I’ve had a post on Big Bend National Park almost finished for about two weeks. Meanwhile, I’m more than two months behind on our blog. I don’t like being so far behind. But the past couple of months, life has taken precedence over blogging. We’ve been in Florida since the first of February and just […]
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