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Traveling with My “Person”
Would I be traveling like this if I didn’t have a partner? I cannot believe how lucky I am to have this life partner in my husband. Glenn and I met in 1975. I was 17 and he was 18, and we had both started at the drama department at Carnegie-Mellon University. Over...
Prepping for an Extended Trip
Now on the other side of my hip replacement (Jan 2nd), Glenn and I can finally start to plan on leaving the country again. My husband and I sold the house in April 2022, got rid of SOOO much stuff, and put the rest into storage. We knew we wanted to travel as much as...
Travel Journaling for Every Hobbit
The best trips continue long after we’ve returned home: in memory, in the stories we tell, and in the ways we reorient our lives. But how do you catch in words the light above the Pacific, an evening with new friends at a fantastic pub, or the way the Hawaiian morning sun feels on your skin? How do we turn sights into lasting insights and use the landscape around us to unlock the treasures within? By keeping a travel journal, we can deepen our experiences and increase present-moment awareness. Journaling and collaging can help us become our truest selves.
Our Quest Travel Adventures – Petra Part 2
You know a trip was good if you feel even better about it later. We loved Petra, but I was also recovering a bit from Egypt. We had just gotten off a week on a live aboard dive boat on the Red Sea. THAT was amazing, and I am danged proud of us being the elders on the...
Quest Retreats: My Retreat Decision Process
People ask me all the time "How do you decide your next Quest?" It’s actually really easy: I have to have a certain feeling in my body. My mind has very little to do with it. I can always figure things out. Might take me some time, Africa took 6 years from the first...
Petra, Part One
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”- The HobbitI thought as I traveled that writing about it would be easy. A no-brainer. Instead I find myself feeling guilty...
Greece
On Crete, I had 2 of my all time favorite animal encounters that I really didn’t expect! We went to Greece from Turkey to meet up with Samantha and Zack, Glenn’s daughter and son-in-law. We were going to meet them in Athens on the 30th of October but we were on our...
More on Italy: The Beauty of Assisi
There’s just something about seeing Glenn in Assisi. He’s so in his element! It’s a beautiful city, high on a hill, beautifully everywhere you look. Then add in my handsome husband, who is delighted by everything he sees, and it’s almost more than I can bear. Even the...
Our Time in Italy
We are leaving Italy tomorrow and I have very mixed feelings. I was relieved to leave the Middle East even though we had a remarkable time. We were in Egypt and Petra for a total of a month. There was SOOOoooo much to love! Including camels! And I was ready to move on...
Our Middle East Travel Adventures
I am most proud of our travels into the Middle East. We went to Turkey last October for 2 weeks and it was tough at first, but ultimately awesome. The people are really great. They welcomed us in Istanbul, a historically cosmopolitan city, rich in the history of so...