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 […]
Archive for Musings – Page 7
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 […]
As of last Wednesday, June 12th, we’re on the road, traveling and living full-time in our 21’ Bigfoot travel trailer. (With the cat, but that’s another post.) Had we known what it would take to prepare for this adventure, I suspect we might have bailed on the idea. Over the past few years, we’ve fantasized […]
Yesterday we hiked a six-mile round-trip trail deep into Canyonlands National Park—the Chesler Park trail. It was a fairly moderate hike, although it did involve some scrambling over slickrock. We saw a handful of people on the trail, but mostly, it was just the two of us in an enormous wild landscape of rock formations, […]
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