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Conversation with Stranger on Airplane Leads to Love Story
NOTE: Sorry for the “bedhead” hair. I got into a rambunctious dog pile with my husband and three young sons at the start of the day. Or, this is just how my hair looks because I live in windy Wyoming. Both are correct.
I challenge you to ask yourself what may happen as a result of [...]
Have Workout, Will Travel
Normally I would take a reprieve from training during our family’s spring break. After all, I was getting some exercise. We hiked every day. But the hikes were fun and enjoyable — not “training” efforts.
The fact that in less than four weeks I will be hiking from North to South across Zion National Park — [...]
Rendezvous 25-K Ski Race: A Great Experience
This is POST 23 of my “fitness journey.” For backstory, see Post 1,
Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Post 7,Post 8, Post 9, Post 10, Post 11, Post 12Post 13,Post 14, Post 15, Post 16, and Post 17,Post 18, Post 19,Post 20,Post 21 and Post 22.
Last Saturday, March 6, I [...]
Sometimes You Can’t Get the Girl out of the Frontier
I travel quite a bit to attend and present at various tourism-related conferences throughout the country.
The headline for this comes from a saying I like to use in my tourism conference presentation introductions: “You can take the frontier out of the girl but (often) you can’t take the girl out of the frontier.”
I love living [...]
Trump Tower: Good Start, Bad Ending
NOTE: This may look like a rant, smell like a rant and seem like a rant. But it’s not a rant. But it could be… and that’s the point of this post.
Our family went on a 2,200-mile road trip adventure over our Spring Break last April that involved camping and touring 6 states in 7 [...]
Have Workout Will Travel
(I owe the clever title to my personal trainer, Steve Bechtel, who referenced my recent travel workout with the aforementioned title. It’s perfect, given my blog’s title)
This is Post 3 of my reporting on my mid-life training program. (For backstory, see Post 1 and Post 2)
So, those of you who know me, or who read [...]
Country bumpkin visits Miami Beach
Greetings from Miami Beach!
Been having a blast on this trip. Was a keynote presenter today at Eye For Travel’s Online Travel Marketing conference at the Fontainebleau.
(Here’s the Twitter thread on Day 1 of the conference)
Well, yesterday I arrived. Made all connections and flights and had feet in sand by 2 pm EST. Bad news: Suitcase [...]
Giant Sequoias and other Yosemite Sights
(Written by one of two country bumpkins following a miraculous arrival to the San Francisco airport on May 19, which followed a trip that included several imbibings at fruit stands, some wrong turns, attempts to gas up the rental car at a non-gas station, a scolding or two, and other mishaps not fit for print)
Here’s [...]
Thunderous waterfalls and granite giants
(Written May 17, 2009)
As I write this I’m in a tent in Yosemite National Park. When we step outside we have views of a thick, green, healthy forest of big pine trees dotted with dogwood, and views above of Half Dome, a granite behemoth that towers over Curry Village. If that all isn’t enough, we [...]
Angel’s Landing Hike in Zion National Park
Zion Trip, Pt. 2
Wow. I knew Angel’s Landing was exposed and that as a result of its heights and exposed nature it was to be an adventure.
We had been to Zion a few other times but as a family. Our sons are small so we had been (wisely) advised to stay away from Angel’s Landing… [...]
National Park Trips
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