There is an advantage to leaving Asheville at 7:30AM: Arrival at the gates to Kiawah Island at 12:30 pm. Gates? Yes, gates. It’s not a gated community – it’s a gated island from what I can tell. Not the kind of place I’d want to live (I’m not into planned communities), but a glorious place to…
Category: Travels
Hayesville –> Asheville
Yesterday I moved out of my lovely home-away-from-home in Hayesville, NC and headed to Asheville. On the way, I enjoyed lunch and browsing at the City Lights Cafe and Bookstore in Sylva, NC. I’m in Asheville for two nights couchsurfing with David and Deanne. I met them yesterday at 4pm and we’re already making plans…
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep….
Planning one trip can be a little stressful. Planning a year of trips might just drive me crazy. In the first six months of this trip, I’ve slept on 23 different surfaces – air mattresses, couches, futons and beds of all sizes – in seven different states. I’ve stayed in the homes of nine friends…
Serendipity
“I forgot a bag again,” I thought this morning as I set off on my morning walk. The beer can glistening in the morning sun reminded me that I wanted to bring a bag on my walk to collect the cans I see along the way. I counted twenty the other day. By the time…
10,000 Steps
“You’re doing the Camino?” he asked. “Did you start practicing yet?” “No,” I replied sheepishly. “But it’s not until May, so I’ve got time.” He looked at me with wide eyes. “You should be out there – at least an hour every day.” It was August, 2011. I was not planning on starting my preparations…
A Day in the Life – My Work Exchange
I used to be a morning person. I’d wake up before my 7:30 alarm, open the small notebook next to my bed and jot down all that I needed/wanted to do today. If the list was getting too long, I’d cross out things. You can only do so much in one day. I’d then hop…
Here I Am!
“Where are you right now? Where are you going next?” I answer these questions a lot from friends and family. I’ve had to answer them moreso lately because I haven’t written a lot of posts the last couple months so people are starting to wonder what it is I’m up to. If you didn’t get…
Abbondanza
“I’ll just go call Grandma,” I said to my instructor. I was in my Genealogy class at the John C. Campbell Folk School where I had one major advantage over all my classmates: I was the only student who had a grandmother still living. This is probably because I was the youngest student in the…
A Day In The Life: Sunday
Some time ago, I shared what life was like as a host at the John C. Campbell Folk School. To do that, I picked one day (Tuesday) and wrote what our job entails. Today I’m going to tell you about Sundays. The nice thing about Sunday is that our lives are not dictated by the…
The Camino: In the Movies and on TV
“You’re doing what in Spain?” people ask when I first mention the Camino de Santiago. Most Americans I talk to have never heard of it. “It’s a pilgrimage walk through Northern Spain,” I explain. Well, my poor explanation got some help recently. Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez have created a movie about the Camino called…
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