Sadie and I pause on a snowy trail, both feeling positive after a challenging year healthwise As the end of the year fast approaches, I wanted to look back on a year that was filled both with challenges and even more blessings. Almost exactly one year ago today I was with my 13 year old […]
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I am just starting my 65th year. I have had a rich and full life so far and I am nowhere near ready to retire to an easy chair and let the world pass me by. There are so many things I want to do, and see, and experience. Travel has always been a big […]
We had planned to be on the road by now for what has become a nearly annual mud season camping trip. When winter seems to be breathing its last breath here in New England, temperatures rise and precipitation begins to fall as rain instead of snow. The plow piles and blankets of white that have […]
One of Helen Keller’s most famous quotes, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”, doesn’t really tell the whole story. Life is also responsibilities. Family, school, jobs, and even everyday mundane tasks, that hardly seem adventurous, fill great portions of our days. But for me it’s those everyday responsibilities that drive me to look […]
I wanted a jeep for as long as I can remember. I think my infatuation started to blossom one summer nearly 50 years ago when we were visiting our relatives in far Northern Minnesota. One of my older cousins had acquired an old Willys jeep. There was certainly nothing fancy about his first vehicle, but […]
In a few days Don and I will be boarding a flight to Ecuador. Our daughter will meet us in Miami where we will take the last leg together to Quito. Our son arrived there this morning and will do some touring on his own while he awaits our arrival. When we are all together […]
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