Month: March 2017
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Oops…found a major budget mistake!
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” -Dan Rather Before we started to seriously plan our 2017/18 travel year, I created a detailed budget as a proof of concept. I wanted to make sure the numbers added up and that…
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Go prepared, to the Superstition Wilderness
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” -Helen Keller As we headed out on the trail that day, I…
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Lessons from the butterfly sessions
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne When I was planning for a family vacation to the greater Phoenix area of Arizona, one of the activities on the list was Butterfly Wonderland. I knew…
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Could you love travel with only hand luggage?
To check or not to check? Here is a crazy question, what would you pack into only carry-on luggage, to last say, a year? Could it even be done? I mean, it can, of course. These travelling nomads on YouTube do it all the time. But they are young guys, for the most part. Or…
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A big year starts with a single booking
A Big Trip! We are 4 people in our family. Me, the middle-aged mother and my husband. Our son, who is 15 years old, but will be 16 when we leave. Our daughter, who is 14. We live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada and will rent out our house on a one year lease. Sounds…
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Turning a midlife crisis into a creative manifesto
Unfortunately, a big chunk of my life has been spent following orders, or doing what was expected. Once I entered the institutions of learning, I towed the line. Attended classes, completed homework, took the tests. Year after year. After all the grades were completed, I took a gap year and worked full-time, living on my…