As I continue my focus on quality travel experiences, including travel that emphasizes the slow, experiential, and mindful, I am highlighting off-the-beaten-path choices for well known destinations. I have always tried to get off the main tourist path to discover the real beat of a place, and in some destinations (Prague, Florence), I couldn’t imagine [...]
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Asilomar State Beach at Dusk: A Photo Essay
One of the biggest lessons that I constantly learn and relearn is to get out, even when everything is telling me to stay inside, for the sake of doing something different. While relaxing at home is comforting and necessary, being outside, especially in nature, is rejuvenating and important. It’s always those days that I do [...]
My Top Ten Bucket List Items
The Elephant Nature Park is having a blog carnival to celebrate their 10th anniversary and help spread awareness of their cause. It’s one I thoroughly support (see #7 below), so I am very happy to participate by posting my top ten bucket list. Information about their site is below–please take a moment and check it [...]
Get Out and Live!
Monday was a weird day. It started with a 1-hour wait in line at the IRS office. I was there just to drop off a form, but most of the others were there to get very-last-minute tax preparation assistance. The non-stop blabbering I heard from those people, from long complaints about even having to pay [...]
It’s All About the People
Some of my most valued readers are those who have an email subscription to this site and therefore get new posts delivered to their inboxes. I accidentally made an e-mail faux pas when contacting these readers. It was unintentional and a mistake, and I have been feeling like an idiot since…so it seems appropriate that [...]
Florence in Photos through My iPhone, Part 2
A few weeks ago, I posted Florence in Photos through Instagram and mentioned that I had lost most of the photos I had taken with my iPhone while in Florence. That turned out not to be true; even though I had accidentally deleted them from my iPhone, they were in the Photo Stream on my iPad. I [...]
Dream Life vs. Real Life
“Dream Life vs. Real Life” or “Why I Won’t Quit My Job”… I’m going to turn 40 later this year. My 30s flew by. Actually, when I stop and think about it, A LOT happened in that decade, but I still can’t believe that it’s almost over. One reason it seems so strange that my [...]
Point Lobos: The Greatest Meeting of Land and Water?
Isn’t it funny how we can miss something wonderful that is practically right under our noses? That is what happened to me on several trips to Monterey Bay and Big Sur on the coast of California: I was so close to Point Lobos State Reserve (I had even driven by a few times!), yet I [...]
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