Tag: United States
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Wherever is Your Heart, I Call Home
“Wherever is your heart, I call home… Though your feet may take you far from me, I know… Wherever is your heart, I call home.” — Brandi Carlisle, “Wherever is your heart, I call home” Funny how when you move all your stuff out of your home, it becomes just a house. You don’t lose…
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4th of July and Great Basin National Park
Day 3 – 5: Salt Lake City, UT, and Great Basin National Park Fourth of July is a very big family celebration in Marla’s family. In the 22 years we’ve been together, I would say at least 10 of them have been spent Marla’s sister Kay’s hanging with family and blowing things up. Kay has…
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Week #1 – Recap
Week #1 ~ 3 States, 1 National Park, 1 Recreation Area, 1 major holiday, 1,180 miles currently $350 under our budget of $250/day. This has been a shakedown week, a meltdown week and a decompression week all rolled into one. Shakedown ~ some of our gear worked just as intended, some of it didn’t….and Marla’s…
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Get Out the Map
Day 1 – 3: Flaming Gorge, Utah The Indigo Girls’ “Get Out the Map” was the first song to play on the 7.5 hour custom curated playlist from one of our best friends. Finessa is very specific about her playlists: the songs are thoughtfully aggregated and ordered to convey specific emotions or a story line. …
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Leap and the net will appear
At our last Safonia concert, everyone was encouraged to write cards to Marla and I to wish us well and send us on our way. One of the cards had this zen saying on the front (thank you, TL) which I think captures exactly what this crazy year of travel will be. It’s a lot…
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I-Bought-Ah
I had the privilege of working at Ibotta for the last 4 years. When I was looking for a new company I found Ibotta on the Built In Colorado website, a site that features mostly Denver and Boulder-area start-ups. One of the nice features of that website is that they list the perks and benefits…
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Shot day
For those Hamilton fans out there, you’re welcome for the ear worm. This morning Marla and I got the majority of our vaccines for the trip and that song has been running through my head all day. About a month ago we went to Passport Health for a consult on what vaccines we would need…
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The house is empty and I hate it already
The plan changed with our cats. Our friend Deb and her partner Ken said they would take both Johann and Sebastian so that they wouldn’t have to be separated. We accepted their offer. We are incredibly grateful to Jeanne who was making space in her life to take on Johann, but we felt that with…
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Safonia
28 days until departure. Choral singing is, by its very nature, an ephemeral act. There must be trillions of songs sung every day by the birds, by parents rocking their children to sleep, by professionals and amatures alike. Singing is a miracle. Think about it ~ you breath in, unconsciously and magically make subtle changes…
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Johann & Sebastian………. the cats
Many of you have asked us what we are going to “do” with the cats? Johann and Sebastian came to our house as tiny kittens 19 years ago in March. At the time we had a cat named Bug ~ so it was Johann Sebastian Bug……..we are music nerds that way. They have grown up…