Nomad exploring life wherever I am
As I finish up my look back at 2018, there’s one last thing to do… THANK YOU FOR READING! I love it when you leave comments and let me know how much a post meant to you or how a photo brought back a memory for you. I enjoy sharing my travels and can’t wait to get back on the road in a few weeks. Stay tuned, the 2019 adventures are almost here! 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…
I was born and raised on the west coast and lived 20 years on the east coast before migrating back “home” at the turn of the century. Wherever I’ve lived, it’s never been far from a big body of water. And by far, I mean less than an hour’s drive, and usually much, much less. Best is walking distance, like the 11 years I lived just a 5-minute walk away from this beach. As I travel, I find myself drawn to water, whether it’s an ocean, a lake, a river, or a reservoir. There’s something about the light and air…
As I grow older, I find moments are often more complicated than just one emotion. Something can be amazing and yet troubling, sad and yet with an element of celebration. All three of these 2018 moments come with such mixed emotions. April: The First Flight Standing where the Wright brothers took of for each of their four flights, then walking down the narrow runway to where each landed made me realize how far aviation has come since that day in December, 1903. A hundred years later, I thought nothing of spending 14 hours in a metal tube every month or…
Today’s countdown to 2019 looks back at four times I thoroughly enjoyed myself in 2018. There were so many, it was definitely hard to choose so I ended up choosing the photos that made me smile the most remembering those moments. March: Sina Comes to the US My niece Sina did a world-tour type of trip this year and her first stop was a week in Florida with me. As always, that girl makes me laugh a lot she and makes everything more fun, from eating breakfast at a Waffle House in Orlando or seeing her first alligator in the…
I saw a lot in 2018 and looking through old posts and photos to find my favorites was a real trip down memory lane. Oddly enough, all five are geographically pretty close to each other, considering I traveled the length and breadth of the US and eastern Canada this year. A: Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania 2018 marked my second trip to Gettysburg, this time allowing myself enough time to explore the battlefield area by area. I had spent time reading up on Gettysburg since my first trip in 2017 and it paid off with a clearer understanding of places…