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FROM START TO FINISH it was a magical time, Key West, thank you for your island hospitality. Participating again this year in the annual 1/2 Marathon/5K (my run), is always an uplifting event which puts a smile on my face. Along the way I cheered on the seven-year-old running like a champ with her mom;Continue reading “My Happy Place!”

Ringing in a New Year and looking ahead to the season on the West Coast!

Full disclosure…living full-time in a 30′ Airstream is not for everyone! I know I have a few friends who think I’m absolutely crazy to move from a bricks & mortar country home in Ojai, California where we lived for two decades into a 220′ square foot home on wheels, with two large dawgs in tow!Continue reading “Alumination is here!”

YOUR BEAUTIFUL RED ROCKS embracing the verdant Verde Valley evoke the natural beauty found in the Utah National Parks, but on a smaller, spiritual level. Our time spent along soothing Oak Creek in the shade of the towering Arizona Sycamore trees at Rancho Sedona RV Resort was too short yet filled with so many warmContinue reading “Oh, Sedona!”

Well color me happy as I spent a heavenly week ‘Up North’ Minnesota with three resilient, funny, brave, strong, bold and beautiful, women! After a stop for lunch in Two Harbors at Betty’s Pies, we drove north to Ely and the historic Burntside Lodge to reconnect and simply enjoy some highly anticipated giddy girl timeContinue reading “Girls ‘Up North’ Reunion”

‘DON’T LOOK UP BECAUSE ALL YOU’LL SEE IS A BIG NOSTRIL’. These words were definitely a first for me. The only place you will likely hear these words are right here in the Black Hills of South Dakota at a magnificent dream carved into a granite mountain to honor the warrior chief, Crazy Horse (unknownContinue reading “Chief Crazy Horse”

For almost 60 years I have been visiting this monument. While the monument remains the same as when sculptor Gutzon Borglum, and upon his death, his son, Lincoln, presented it to our nation in 1941, the monument experience has changed in a positive way. Gone is the simple parking lot and kitschy, but fun-to-roam-as-a-young-kid tinyContinue reading “Sixty Years…”

INDEPENDENCE PASS at an elevation of 12,095’ feet connects two of my Colorado happy places. The chic ski town of Aspen and the laid-back desert locale of Twin Lakes and Buena Vista, Colorado. After settling into one of our favorite dry camp locations in the tiny hamlet of Twin Lakes, we headed to the TwinContinue reading “Independence Pass CO”

EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE the Airstream gods smile down and surprise you with not only a serene mountain lake at 8,000 feet, but the best campsite in the park! When we began our full time journey a couple years back we landed at a sweet campground in Oregon where we met an interesting young man,Continue reading “Steamboat Springs CO”

SKI TOWNS IN THE SUMMER are some of my favorite places to visit! While we hung up our skis over a decade ago, I never miss an opportunity to enjoy the summer beauty of these magical mountain towns and Jackson, Wyoming never fails to make me smile. After settling in I drove to Teton VillageContinue reading “Mountain Mania”