“I start on July 30th,” I said to Lois. “Oh. I’ll be there the week before taking a class – can you get there a little earlier? We can have dinner at the Copper Door again,” she offered. Dinner at the Copper Door is not something one turns down. So though I’m not officially due…
Category: Travels
Adelaide + Me = 90,000 miles
I pulled into the gas station and paused to make heads or tails of the place. There must have been twenty different pumps and cars going every which way. I drove slowly though the maze. A woman rolled down her window as our cars approached one another. “Oh dear,” I thought. “Am I going the…
Two down, Two to go
“A world without Rebecca is not a world worth living in,” she said. A little extreme perhaps, but I appreciated the sentiment. She was the dean of the natural sciences department. I was a well-liked adjunct instructor of anatomy and physiology. I had just told her I was leaving her institution to adjunct at another…
Burgos
“And you’re doing all this alone?” he asked. “Yes,” I said. As of yet, I hadn’t met anyone else who wanted to spend six weeks walking across northern Spain. “That’s a little scary,” he said. “Not really,” I responded. But I was talking to a man who had a daughter in college. Most men with…
All levels welcome
The class is called “Building a Garden Shed.” I don’t have a garden. Nor any property on which to put a garden. In fact, I’ll be living “on the road” for the next year, so it’s inconceivable that I will need to know how to build a garden shed anytime in the near future. Despite…
Three months from today….
Imagine a catalog filled with courses you’d love to take. The courses take place in your favorite part of the country. The only problem? You can only take one course at a time. So how do you decide? Well, I had that question every since I first opened a catalog from the John C. Campbell…
A Week Off
I am happy to report that there are still places in the US that have no cell phone coverage. And even happier to report that I am sitting in one of them. I’m currently in a log house on the Hiwassee River in Hayesville, North Carolina. For an entire week, no less. The idea for…
Found: One Passport Photo
“So what other places do I have to clean out?” I asked myself. I have been on a mission to pare down my belongings and I try to do something towards that goal each day. I opened a cabinet. Besides being the storage space for my pajamas (which I wasn’t interested in paring down at…
Farming & Facebook
Today, I found a good use for Facebook. I know, I know – there are lots of you out there who can’t imagine living without it. I’m not one of them. I’ve often wondered what I’d miss if I closed my facebook account. I can’t say the list was too long. I would not miss…
Misconceptions
“So after you spend all your money traveling the world, then what are you going to do?” he asked. “I’m not going to spend all my money, first of all,” I said. I started to explain how I had a chunk of cash specifically for my year of travels, but then quickly decided this guy…
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