"Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live." Dalai Lama
I love travel and adventure. But recently I have been yearning for something more. Time to reflect, time to find purpose, time to search for meaning, and time to re-evaluate priorities. This led me to the Camino. Camino means “path” and there are many of them across Europe. It started out as a …
John and I just had our 36th wedding anniversary (40 years together). When we were deciding where a good place would be to celebrate, we wanted it to be somewhere that we could just hang out, live, experience and be like a local. We decided on Paris for two weeks, which is a sort of …
Iceland has been on our list for some time, and research led us to believe the best choice for us was two weeks in an RV, traveling the Ring Road around the entire island. June is the just the very beginning of tourist season, so it wasn’t super crowded. Temps ranged from high 50s to …
The Galapagos Islands have been a dream destination for me since I was a young adult. I was drawn to the remoteness, and the thought of animals you can’t see anywhere else being found at this location. I romanticized a bit about Darwin making landfall here and building his theory of evolution and natural selection …
When my friend Cynthia asked me to be her plus 1 on a trip she was planning with her oldest and dearest friends to Nepal, I jumped on the opportunity. I honestly didn’t know much about Nepal, outside of the fact it was home to Mt Everest. I knew that she and her friends were …
10 years ago, my sister Luci and I started a tradition of adventure travel. It was a way to connect, rejuvenate, push our bodies, and process the ups and downs that life brings. We had friends and family join us on these trips, or sometimes we would travel alone. This year was our first international …
This week, John and I made a trip to the US Virgin Islands to visit #62 of 63 National Parks – on St John Island. Getting to Virgin Islands National Park is not for the faint of heart – two planes, two taxis, a ferry, and a rental car each way, but it was absolutely …
This year was a milestone anniversary – 35 years. Hard to believe as time goes by so fast. Our first date was my high school prom, believe it or not. I moved to town right before my senior year, wasn’t dating anyone, and a guy I was friends with, Ray, asked me if I would …
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I just completed my bucket list trip of a lifetime with my bestie of 47 years, Stephanie Key Espinoza We hiked the Inca trail, the Salkantay Pass trek to Machu Picchu, ending the trip climbing to the top of Machu Picchu mountain. It was approximately 50 miles over 8 days, gaining 8000 Ft of elevation, …
Over 14 months ago, I started my journey in culinary school. It is so hard to believe it is almost over! Over the past year, I have learned so much. In the beginning, it was all about technique – knife skills, braising, stewing, puréeing, poaching, simmering, boiling, blanching, shocking, steaming, soups, salads, stocks, sauces, dressings, sweating, caramelizing, dredging, …