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The Balance Between Now and Next

Posted by on Jun 15, 2016 in ADVENTURE, awareness, birds | 2 comments

We are at Chatfield State Park in Littleton, Colorado, at a very large, very popular lakeside campground. The campground is full, but the spaces are far enough apart that it doesn’t feel crowded. Our campsite in in the second ring from an uninterrupted view of the lake, but we have a fifty-foot wide open space between campers straight to the water.  ...

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico

Posted by on Jun 8, 2016 in ADVENTURE, awareness, delight, Georgia O'Keeffe | 3 comments

After 5 days in the Albuquerque area, we headed to Georgia O’Keeffe country in northern New Mexico. We stopped first at the Tire Pros and they fixed the two slow leaks. They were so nice and fast and they even pulled the RV in and out, and lined it up for us to hitch up and drive away!   We camped a few miles north of Abiquiu at a Core of Engineers...

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It’s Not What Happens, It’s How You Handle It

Posted by on Jun 1, 2016 in ADVENTURE, delight |

  We moved into our new-to-us 2013 motorhome while we were still parked in the driveway at the house, so we had used everything except the shower. During our first week, camped at a full-hookups RV Park in Pinetop, AZ, we discovered that we couldn’t control the water temperature in the shower. We called a mobile repair place and they installed a...

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The Best Thing About Getting Lost

Posted by on May 25, 2016 in awareness, birds, delight, gratitude, maps, nature, paying attention, present moment, seeing | 2 comments

When people ask us what we like most about RVing, we both answer, “being in nature.” And the freedom to explore places outside of the big and busy cities. Even when we have flown somewhere and stayed in a hotel, we’ve always sought out the quiet, open places, usually where Marika can watch birds. Today’s article, first published in...

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A Passover Story

Posted by on Apr 20, 2016 in Uncategorized |

  Passover has always been the big holiday in our family, when generations of us gather around several big tables for a delicious meal. But before the food is served, there is the required telling of the Passover story, how the Jews were slaves in Egypt, and how God led them through the desert for 40 years to the promised land. A big part of Passover...

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