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Enemies and Friends in Normandy
Featured | France

Enemies and Friends in Normandy

I stood staring at the wide expanse of Omaha Beach, squinting my eyes and trying to imagine what that historic day was like. D-Day seems…

Group Dynamics Patagonia
Hiking | Patagonia | Solo Travel

Group Dynamics Patagonia

I looked around the table and wondered – how did this happen? How is it that at 43 I’m the youngest one on this hiking…

Field of sunflowers
Adventure Travel | Featured | Transportation

Looking for Excitement This Summer?

I looked out the window of my Turkish bus, and my stomach seized up in knots. My eyes focused in on the field of yellow…

thanksgiving 1971
Family Travel | Inside My Head | Lodging

Giving Thanks for Beds

It’s Thanksgiving – time for overeating and reflection.  As I look back on my last five years of travel there are many things to be…

solo travel
America | Featured | Food and Drink | Hawaii | Solo Life | Solo Travel

Solo Travel Instincts

I pulled up outside of the airport and saw the flashing lights glaring, almost glowing, in the dark rainy night. I slowed down and pulled…

social media syndicate
Adventure Travel | Featured | Inside My Head | Mongol Rally | Transportation

Traveling with Strangers

Before I departed on the Mongol Rally when I told people about what I was doing this summer, they were surprised, but consistently, it was…

hate your job
Featured | Inside My Head

This is What People with Passion Do

  Passion is a weird thing, it can take over your life, and it can make you do things you otherwise would never do. Passion…

Couchsurfing Regrets
Lodging | Netherlands | Nomadic Living

Couchsurfing Regrets

I live my life very deliberately – and I have very few regrets. In fact, my regrets are the usual…I wish I would have kept…

Inside My Head | Turkey

A Decade of Travels

It took one simple question 10 years ago to change my life… “Do you want to come with me?” My co-worker and friend asked me…

Family Travel | Nepal

Kathmandu – A Personal Tour

2010-5-12 This week is a special week – I’m devoting my posts this week to Kathmandu.  However I don’t feel like being as ‘wordy’ as…

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