I hiked a bit in college and really enjoyed it but somehow allowed most of the following twenty years to unfold largely hike-free. But once we moved to the Pacific Northwest when I was forty and I went on my first hike I was hooked. Hiking is sacred to me. It is the best of […]
I just ran across this text I produced about a year ago on a trip through Europe and found it interesting. No real life lessons, more just allowing one to be a fly on the wall as I wander. Hello all, Sitting here in Vienna on a Sunday morning, a week before Easter. So far
It is a cold otherwise impersonal dark autumn morning in Seattle as I sit here held in Love by 1971 David Bowie. Why did I not more fully explore the depth of your catalog until after you died; 26 studio albums, were you mortal? Life on Mars is currently holding me tight. Its beauty allows
I had just finished a beautiful and exhausting hike yesterday a little before 1PM. I was driving out from the trailhead beginning the five mile treacherous pot-hole dodging trek back down a forest road. Imagine if we actually allocated a few bucks from each of us to maintain the roads to access these national treasures?
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I have learned so much this week in Prague. I of course reflect fondly on the Prague of 1993. That was pure magic. That can never happen again. Then again I can never be 23 again anyway. Life is change. We need to ensure that it is good-change most of the time. If you try
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I am now home. I have now had the opportunity to sleep in my own bed and hug my wife. This trip was different for me. I have been privileged to be able to travel abroad for over a month at a stretch probably nine times or so. The fact that I can’t say if
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Wow. Just wow. Probably my seventh or eighth time in Vienna and still wow. We used to be able to catch the 15:59 train out of Ingolstadt on a Friday afternoon for a long weekend in Vienna when we were living in Germany. What a privilege. The city remains one of my favorite places in
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So, this is the first new city for me on this trip. I began this trip with eleven days in Rome, a city I have been to at least a dozen times in my life, even once on a business trip. I love Rome. I love how insignificant I feel there….how impermanent. The city is
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