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December 10, 2018
This one has been percolating in me for awhile. Brewing around, waiting for me to find all the words to say to get my meaning across. I’m still not 100% feeling like I’ve got it all formulated, but I guess it’s time to leave off the dragging of my feet and just put it out there. I grew up going to church. Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night, every week of my life until I moved out at the age of 18 1/2. But even having grown up in a church-y environment, I’ve never felt 100% comfortable around church […]
November 22, 2018
I think one of the things that gets most of us all hung up on forward progress is not knowing exactly HOW to accomplish what you have been dreaming about. Or maybe it’s just me? I have been dreaming about this thing I’m doing right now for years, but I’ve been dragging my feet, because I wasn’t quite sure how to go about it. I have a passion for helping women live life to it’s fullest – to fall headfirst into the thing that God created them to be and do…but how do I even do that? Who is even […]
November 18, 2018
Sitting on the couch, or lying in a hammock and daydreaming about “what if” is so easy to do. What if I let the nudges of inspiration lead me down the road I’ve been dreaming about? What if I told people about the mistakes I made, but how they truly changed everything for the better? What if I wrote that book and it ended up making me a shit-ton of money? What if I stopped daydreaming, and do it? The daydreaming is easy. Sitting on the couch and thinking about the difference I could be making, is a daily […]
November 12, 2018
Alright, so I’m no spring chicken. I’m also not exactly fit. And when I need an excuse for why I can’t do something, those are two excellent options. So, I’d been dreaming of the re-purposing of this travel blog into a brand new travel-inspired project for weeks. Maybe even a few months… I’d already had it all planned out. Knew what I need to change. Had copy mostly written…but I needed pictures. I absolutely could NOT launch without new pics. First I kept thinking I needed to lose weight before I took them…because I can’t do much about my age, […]
July 11, 2018
I’m a firm believer that if you don’t get out and see the world, you are living a life half lived. Not just because you miss out on the wonders of the world, but you miss out on experiencing life outside of what you are accustomed to living. That all being said – sometimes you just have to get out and check out some local flavor too. I recently got an opportunity to take my teens and some of their friends over to All in Adventures in Fort Wayne to try out an Escape Room. The kids have participated in […]
July 2, 2018
When I say we don’t like crowds – I mean it. We were at the Hoover Dam before anyone else. Waiting patiently for a tour that was not to be. (Broken elevator). We did do the visitor center – very informative, very interesting. We spent quite a bit of time checking it out, and headed out for the rest of the day. If you don’t get a pic in front of the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, it doesn’t count, right? And even though, the gang is never there, we still wanted to see the Pawn Shop. Fremont Street…the kids […]
July 1, 2018
Our last real day of travel has arrived. We are all feeling it a little – ready to head home, but at the same time totally in love with this trip we’ve taken. Or at least most of us are. My daughter is 14, and she’s…well, she’s weary by this point. For our finaly day, we were up by 5am for an early morning hike for a few reasons. 1. The husband and I have done this hike before, and it gets hot down in the cathedral. It’s best done early in the morning. The hike out is brutal, and […]
June 30, 2018
This post wins for longest title ever…but I couldn’t leave any of them off! The day started just outside of the Grand, at our campground at Ten X. I want to stress again that this was in our top 5 campgrounds of the whole trip – and it was TEN DOLLARS a night!! So, I’ve been to the Grand Canyon before. A couple of years ago, the husband and I stopped here at the tail end of our trip through Utah on our way back to Vegas. It was kind of like this: Not that I was unimpressed. It’s pretty, […]
June 29, 2018
From Death Valley, we started heading toward the Grand Canyon. Along the way, we had plans to stop at Seligman. If you’ve got kids, you’ve surely seen the movie Cars. Seligman was the main inspiration for the film. When Interstate 40 was built, Seligman (built right on Route 66) experienced a serious decline. After years of lobbying, local barber, Angel Delgadillo, was able to obtain Historical status for the iconic route. We stopped by his old barbershop (now a tourist-y shop where you can often catch sight of Angel himself), and ate at his late brother Juan’s Snow-Cap Drive-In nearby. From […]
June 28, 2018
The trip from Sequoia to Death Valley was basically uneventful, save for a very fortuitous stop at Gus’s (don’t bother with the grammatical error of that) Jerky. It’s phenomenal, and very worth the stop. Round about here, we got buzzed by what we think was an F-14 Tomcat. But it was going hella fast…and though I was desperately fumbling with my phone, I didn’t catch it. We googled once we got signal again, and as it happens, that gorge pictured above is none other than “Star Wars Canyon”, or what pilots call the “Jedi Transition”. It’s used as a training […]
June 27, 2018
Contrary to the name – you will find no glaciers at Glacier Point. This fact bummed me out. There ARE glaciers in Yosemite – but you have to hike over 14,000 feet peaks to see them, and since I couldn’t hack Vernal Falls – well, yeah, it’s just not happening for me. You will however, find the most amazing view of the Yosemite Valley. Legit, the best view in the park. There used to be hotels up there, but the park wisely chose not to rebuild, making that view accessible to anyone who wanted to drive up. It IS worth […]
