Apache Junction, Arizona
"There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and you will doubt your ability to make it through the uncertainty....
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May 3, 20235 min read
The Grand Canyon
"The really wonderful moments of joy in the world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge...
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Apr 16, 20234 min read
Page, Arizona
"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...
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Mar 25, 20235 min read
One Word... ZION!
"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...
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Mar 13, 20234 min read
The Road To Zion
"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...
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Feb 22, 20235 min read
Sedona & Jerome, AZ
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, you are free." - Jim Morrison Cottonwood, AZ, is just two short hours from Scottsdale...
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Feb 20, 20233 min read
Scottsdale, AZ
"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...
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Feb 1, 20235 min read
Joshua Tree, CA
"If seeds waited for the perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert." - Matshonda Dhilwayo I was excited to...
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Jan 17, 20235 min read
Bakersfield, CA
"A person susceptible to 'wanderlust' is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation." - Pico Iyer It was a long day...
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Jan 8, 20233 min read
Sonoma, CA
"If you need me, I'll be tasting wine." 🍷 The drive from Manchester Beach and Mendocino Coast to the San Francisco/Petaluma Koa North...
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jamieandfern
Dec 29, 20224 min read
Mendocino & Manchester, CA
(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...
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Dec 13, 20226 min read
Crescent City & The Redwoods
"The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or...
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Dec 8, 20223 min read
Checking In
"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller I agree with...
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jamieandfern
Dec 3, 20224 min read
Klamath Falls, Oregon
"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...
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jamieandfern
Nov 30, 20226 min read
Crescent Locks/Mount Hood - Oregon
"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...
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Nov 23, 20224 min read
Cannon Beach, Oregon
"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...
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jamieandfern
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Washington - Old Friends Are The Best Friends
"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...
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jamieandfern
Nov 20, 20223 min read
Washington - Seattle
"Seattle is for people who love culture but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it." - Kimberly Kinrade I was excited for...
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jamieandfern
Nov 19, 20225 min read
Washington - A Break From Fern
"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...
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jamieandfern
Nov 14, 20224 min read
Washington - Olympic National Park
"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...
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