Every single day of my life, I think about travel all day. I think about traveling when I eat my breakfast cereal. I think about traveling while I read travel books and travel blogs. I think about traveling while running… you get the idea. I feel that such a huge portion of who I am […]
Archive | March, 2011
On Spunky Girl Monologues: Learning Active Kindness as a Volunteer Abroad in Haiti
Enjoy my second post published this month on Spunky Girl Monologues as part of March’s volunteering abroad theme: http://www.spunkygirlmonologues.com/learning-active-kindness-as-a-volunteer-abroad-in-haiti/ Thanks again to Pam for inviting me to write on her site!
Chapter 12 from 256 Days in a Pickup Truck
(An excerpt from my manuscript about our 256-day road trip. This excerpt provides background info for my post about my favorite campsites in Arizona.) THE BOOKSELLER It is with sheer pleasure that I introduce you to a bookseller in Quartzsite, Arizona, the most blatantly in-your-face specimen of all those characters I have set before you […]
Favorite campsites in Arizona
I’ve already mentioned Slab City in Niland, CA, as the coolest place to camp in the US. For more info about Slab City, you can check out my previous post about Slab City and take a look at some of my Slab City photos in my Picasa albums. Please take note of the unique photos […]
Upcoming Post on Spunky Girl Monologues
My post on Spunky Girl Monologues from March 6th will be followed up this coming Monday March 28th with another post about volunteering in Haiti. There will be a few photos posted along with the article, but I thought I would share an album with you of my pictures from Haiti in February 2010. Enjoy! […]
Sunday afternoon at Great Falls Park, VA
After a week filled with days of heavy rain and flood warnings, Shane and I went with his family (along with every other family in northern VA) to check out the water level at Great Falls on the Potomac. Notice in the picture that I brought along our “Passport to Your National Parks” booklets so […]
On top of Mt. Skylight
Dear Readers, Back in February I had an article published on Travel with a Mate.com about why more people from a wide range of athletic abilities should get interested in mountain climbing and hiking: http://www.travelwithamate.com/mountain-climbing-america-top-peaks I came across this picture while looking over my adventures with Shane in Adirondack State Park in New York. I […]
Why to travel… really
Last week at a funeral, the priest told all of us in attendance: [Regardless of whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, a believer, or a non-believer, everyone's moral obligation is to seek the truth.] The rest of his sermon suggested that he was talking about the importance of everyone seeking religious truth and […]
Debut on Spunky Girl Monologues
Dear Readers, I’m excited to share this link with you today: http://www.spunkygirlmonologues.com/volunteering-in-haiti-after-the-earthquake-an-opportunity-for-unexpected-revelations/ I hope you enjoy my post I wrote for spunkygirlmonolgues.com about my experience volunteering in Haiti last year. The website’s focus for March is on volunteering abroad, so my post fit right in. Special thanks to Pam MacNaughtan, the original “Spunky Girl” and […]
Imagine Living Here:
I always think about how the average American has an unbelievably boring living arrangement. I am not including people who live in cool places, or those places that I think are cool– in the mountains, right on a beach, on a horse ranch, places like that. Those lucky people are the exceptions. When I think […]
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I. LOVE. THIS. PICTURE.
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Going back a second time: Is it ever the same?
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Top 5 stops on my Mexican holiday road trip
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Costa Rican critters! (and the presents they give us)
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Salvador Dalí reloaded
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Adam’s Grub Truck at Treasure Island flea market
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Wanderlust Yoga in the City SF!
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Best SF Bay Area flea market: Treasure Island flea market
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Awesome SF Bay Area flea market: Alameda Antiques Fair
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Better SF flea market: Alemany Flea in Bernal Heights
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Martha LaValette: A little jealous. Sounds fantastic! Kefir Chapstic…
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Alice Varga: I came across your post when 'googling' for "dzedu…
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Marisa LaValette: Hi Sydney! Thank you so much for visiting my bl…
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Sydney Girling: It's hard to find educated people in this particul…
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