I’m less than two weeks from my first pilgrimage. What, you may ask, is a pilgrimage? ‘Pilgrimage’ is often used to describe an individual’s journey through life, sometimes as a general description of personal growth and exploration, sometimes, as in Christianity, outlining a particular spiritual focus or pathway which it is believed will lead to encounter… Continue reading A Pilgrimage
I did not want my first post of 2019 to be a book review. I am, though, glad it was a book review of a book I loved reading. Now if I could only manage to write more frequently about other things in life. Traveling I am not huge on traveling as I was when… Continue reading New Year, No New Habits … Yet
Other than posts here, most people that know me would probably think nothing is missing. I really don’t believe that, particularly after my weekend trip south a couple weeks ago. I realized as I was rolling my suitcase out of the first hotel my daughter and I stayed in that I miss traveling. I spent… Continue reading What’s Missing?
Race week is here! I have a few races coming up in the next six weeks. Two are out of town and those races tend to stress me out as I do not own a car but I have been known to take a Greyhound bus to a race so no car is not a… Continue reading Race Week
Things are different here in the desert. I am adapting. You can see some photos from this morning here. Here are some of my observations. I must run in the morning. And by morning, I mean out the door by 6 am at the latest or it is too hot. At home, we love a… Continue reading Desert Living
I’m hitting the road again tomorrow. I am off to Roanoke, Virginia. I had never been to this area until last year at this time. I fell in love with the area. City life with mountains nearby. My trip to Asheville reminded me a lot of Roanoke. So, Saturday morning, I will toe the start… Continue reading Packing Again
… try to find old friends? When I went to Richmond to run the marathon in November, I looked up one of my dearest friends from my childhood. The last time we had seen each other was when her father had died. She had come up to get some belongings. She had her daughter with… Continue reading Do You Ever…
One year! Just last year at this exact time, I spent the day trying to fit all the “stuff” into the car. My two youngest sons – then 16 and 20 – were heading with me for my initial marathon. Part of the attraction to come with mom lay in the location of that first… Continue reading A Year Ago
While I would gladly sit in the airport and just bury my head in my computer, the commuter gates at Dulles are not where there is an abundance of outlets or charging stations. Because of this, I thought my computer was going to have to be turned off due to the battery running out. Then,… Continue reading Travel Tidbits 3
As flawless as my travel east to the west was, my flights going home, west to east, were as bad as the travel out was good. I traveled in both directions with no specific plans on the day of arrival. Because of this, when airlines were looking for someone to bump – of the six… Continue reading Travel Tidbits 2
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