I grew up in Tiburon, California, a small town on the San Francisco Bay on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. I spent my first 12 years here before we moved to Norway when my dad took a job as a Sea Captain on an oil drilling ship in the North Sea. The […]
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ANGEL IN MY CRISIS Rada “Kevin, would you consider yourself a savvy train traveler?” I was about to embark on a long day of train travel in France leaving from Sarlat-la-Caneda, a small commune east of Bordeaux, to Beziers about seven train hours southeast with one transfer in between. I’m a pretty seasoned air traveler,
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ANGEL BY MY SIDE Mary I have my talents and passions, and consider myself resourceful and tenacious, but was severely humbled when I decided to take a friends’ suggestion and build myself a website in order to create a platform to blog about my recent, extensive, solo travel experiences. “Just go on Squarespace and follow
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I welcome you back to rejoin me for Part 3 in my series of ‘Twelve Firsts’. In Parts 1 & 2 we journeyed from the first day of my sojourn, July 1, 2019 in Encinitas, California, to January 1, 2020 in Bali, Indonesia. I shared where I was, how I was feeling, and what I was doing on
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I continue on with my rendition of ‘slice of life’ – where I was, how I was feeling, and what I was doing on the first day of this year. January 1, 2020 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia After six months of domestic roatripping, I find myself more than 10,000 miles away from my home country, in a
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Come take a glimpse through my personal lens as I spotlight a ‘slice of life’ rendition of this journey I am on. Because I embarked on the first of July, I will tell you where I was, how I was feeling, and what I was doing on the first of each month through the first year. I
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The circle closed at 7:25pm this past Friday, after a 9 hour drive where I had navigated along an unexpected, stunning California backroad, as well as excruciating, creeping, crawling, stopped Los Angeles and Orange County freeways. It’s what time it was when I climbed back up onto the rock at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, a
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WATER I introduce you to my HAPPY my peace my grounding; my nourishment; my healing; my awe Water to me is LIFE And this life is abundant to all of our senses….easily accessible MEIKLEJOHNS BAY, NEW ZEALAND Saturated in the color of a jewel; the movement; the study of contrasts; How can this sky
Why did I pack up my car and leave home on a summer day to go out to explore beyond the comfort of my community? Simply stated, I’m on a journey – a personal journey that is transforming and evolving me. “Me” is in the world and “me” matters. I am not unique in this
