Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part III
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai Thursday, March 24, 2022 There are lots of things you can count on and...
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roadoflife66
- May 9, 2022
- 11 min
Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part II
"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." - Anonymous Monday, March 21, 2022 -- Leaving San Francisco Though our...
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roadoflife66
- Apr 26, 2022
- 13 min
Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part I
"It doesn't matter where you are going, it matters who is beside you." - Anonymous Last December, my partner Matthew's sister-in-law...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 31, 2022
- 16 min
The Upper Midwest: A Road Trip for 2021 - Part II
"Travel leaves you speechless; then turns you into a storyteller." - Ibn Battuta Now just five days into my two-week Upper Midwest road...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 18, 2022
- 11 min
The Upper Midwest: A Road Trip for 2021 - Part I
"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien Each year I try to make two or three road trips, even if they are limited to a few days....
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roadoflife66
- Jul 21, 2021
- 9 min
Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Skagit - Yakima)
This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Skagit County La Conner -- The city of La...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 21, 2021
- 11 min
Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Lewis - San Juan)
This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Lewis County Claquato -- The small community of...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 21, 2021
- 11 min
Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Garfield - Klickitat)
This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Garfield County Lower Granite Dam -- To get...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 21, 2021
- 10 min
Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Adams - Franklin)
“Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord,...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 16, 2021
- 7 min
Carolina on My Mind (Part IV) - From Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Parkway
Now in the final few days of my 15-day East Coast road trip, the bitter reality that it would soon come to end -- that the unchecked...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 8, 2021
- 9 min
Carolina On My Mind (Part III) - From Boone to Colonial Virginia
October 3, 2020 Dawn in Charlottesville, Virginia marked the end of Week 1 of my autumn road trip through the Carolinas, and beyond. My...
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roadoflife66
- Jul 6, 2021
- 11 min
Carolina On My Mind (Part II) - Appalachia
For the next few days of my East Coast road trip, I wandered through Appalachia, starting in South Carolina and working my way northward....
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roadoflife66
- Jul 3, 2021
- 12 min
Carolina On My Mind (Part I) - The Outer Banks
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I...
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roadoflife66
- Jun 9, 2021
- 14 min
Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part V
June 17, 2013 - Kansas City Here I Come By the time we crossed the Mississippi River the night before, Lola and I had logged 4,837 miles...
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roadoflife66
- Jun 3, 2021
- 11 min
Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part IV
June 13, 2013 - Leaving New York Lola and I had been on the road officially for two weeks when we packed our suitcases in our New York...
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roadoflife66
- May 29, 2021
- 11 min
Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part III
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” —Simone de Beauvoir I have a crush on New York, and it’s been going on...
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roadoflife66
- May 27, 2021
- 12 min
Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part II
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans...
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roadoflife66
- May 21, 2021
- 16 min
Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac Starting with the first road trip I made in 1987...
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roadoflife66
- May 9, 2021
- 12 min
Magnetic North: Canada's Northwest Territories
"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." -- Gustave Flaubert In the late 1980s, I was obsessed with...
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roadoflife66
- Apr 27, 2021
- 12 min
Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?
(Apologies to Dionne Warwick for altering her song title, just a little...) Situated high in the northern Rio Grande Valley, in the...
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