"There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and you will doubt your ability to make it through the uncertainty....

"The really wonderful moments of joy in the world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge...

"Make your heart like a lake with a calm, still surface and great depths of kindness." - Lao Tzu This was another travel day full of...

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we...

"Tell me, what is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver Sometimes you start the trip thinking it will be a...

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, you are free." - Jim Morrison Cottonwood, AZ, is just two short hours from Scottsdale...

"There is a calling in your heart that echoes when everything is still and quiet. You've probably heard it since you were a child. It's a...

"If seeds waited for the perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert." - Matshonda Dhilwayo I was excited to...

"A person susceptible to 'wanderlust' is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation." - Pico Iyer It was a long day...

"If you need me, I'll be tasting wine." 🍷 The drive from Manchester Beach and Mendocino Coast to the San Francisco/Petaluma Koa North...

(AKA... The trip where Fern and I almost plunged to death off a mountain.) ⛰ "Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and...

"The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or...

"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller I agree with...

"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there is no joy in living our whole life on the ground" - Shel Silverstein Fern and I left...

"The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls." - Lori Lansens Oh, how I loved this part of Oregon. I'm sensing...

"If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness, you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be...

"Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling like nothing has changed" - Chris Dar I was over the moon excited to...

"Seattle is for people who love culture but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it." - Kimberly Kinrade I was excited for...

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for...

"You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul." - Unknown I made the Olympic Peninsula Loop. It might not have been the...