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A Sabbatical? Yes... TX It is not a "closure"... It is a "sabbatical" from the Internet, not the Journey, much needed. It took me a week of writing trying to explain on our last [for now!] Journal entry the reasons and the whys of my decision and so there is not much sense trying to duplicate...

Trying to find Peace... TX Is it kind of an intermission while at The Oasis in Big Bend, Texas, in and out of Dr's listening to their opinions? It is! Initially not happy about it [who would be?] I have learned to accept the steps required which will some day give me, us, a better quality of...

Spirit really likes his new Goggles! I can tell... wish I had a pair... Dr next week... will see what happens. Good I hope. Thanks. Taking a break for a few days... We have not been here in a while. Colorado is now behind us and so is Kansas for sure. Bad Internet connections in isolated...

That was one of our back roads... We have 750 miles of them!!! Come and camp in Big Bend.... Coming to Life again! Easton, KS The past few weeks have not been very pretty, yugly inside out. It happens. A battle within me as I finally came out of it only these days victorious realizing once...

Yes it is! So far so good... Thanks! Coming out of lala land! TX Sometimes I feel as these past weeks have only been a bad dream and yet there is so much pleasure being here and finding the real core of this space undisturbed by the tourists and the snow birds who for some reason or...

Thank You... next week is the big week!!! It is much worse than sciatica... Time travel.... TX This is when on the path of this Journey ten years almost into the making the red flag is up, flag followed by the red light which will not even blink, which does not even yet have a green or...

When the body rebels... TX We packed, packed some more, stored a few things laying around here and as much as we live in the present [as Spirit does a much better job at it than me!] we left anticipating the spaces awaiting for us, the ones especially at higher altitudes and cooler...

Is it only a matter of choice? TX We are still lingering in Big Bend! Having a hard time leaving this space as we have spread out and Nature has covered the grounds with greens and yellows. it is quite a sight I must say when daily we sit amongst such a marvel of Nature. But, we are packing...

Good Days in Big Bend, Texas. Sometimes throughout the year moments reach a higher level of perfection all around. The weather, the landscape, the mental and physical intermission within a more than welcoming space. Those are it right now. It is at the same time the occasion to re-align a...

BBNP, how it all came about. TX March 2nd, 2015 Still in a holding pattern here in Big Bend, Texas, I always wanted to know how these beautiful geological patterns had come about. I felt as one needs to know as such when some day this will be Home. Some day! I coupled my reading with a...

Open up your lens a bit wider... TX Strange things happen in a Desert while away from it all. It is mainly called thinking! Not as bombs amidst an Urban Jungle, here silence prevails, one needs to be comfortable in their own skin... and mind. Life moves on here at its own pace as at times I...

Thank You. It should be out in about a month. I am looking at samples for quality. So far so good... I will let you know here. Enjoy... Winter this time around seems to be lingering forever or is it this construction while "it" feeling so against the grain of our Journey. Was it the wrong...

Intermission in Life. TX We both have been looking for a break, an intermission of some sort but not one in this fashion. A violent ice storm created the worse black out these three million acres have ever experienced when 30 electric poles went down. No fuel, no propane, no phone service, not...

Thank You. Happy upcoming Holidays to you... Thank You Mitch also. We do indeed have a lot to be thankful for. Coming to terms with the future. Big Bend. TX I feel as I have traded "Old Faithful" for a skill saw, drill, jigsaw, plywood, shovel, rake, you name it! And I have part time...

Making a Home in Big Bend... Texas that is. Where do I begin? as "The Oasis", here, once again works its magic in the center of this Texas Desert. As the years have gone by on the road, the thought of the ones ahead of us has made its mark. Some day we will need a Home, it is inevitable, as a...

Timeless Zone in Big Bend, Texas. A big decision was facing me all summer. Where would we live some day when this body dwindled down as already the rough off roads are slowly being a thing of the past. Mainly for summer times as winter here at "The Oasis" is unequaled. Land up North above 9000...

Lazy days at "The Oasis", Texas... What can I say? After taking refuge in Bluff, Utah, due to flash flood warnings [which I take very seriously], on our way West back to the Gooseneck and Valley of the Gods the little voice in me [sometimes not so little!] told me to get back here... as we did...

Thank You "Life". End of summer as I felt fall for the first time with cold hands and finding myself wearing a sweater. All so welcomed. Such freedom I have been thinking while laying on the ground one night, a couple nights ago in Valley of the Gods and watching the stars while seemingly the...

Spirit finally got a job!!! Dropping South to Utah... Chaperoning our Book Editor for 12 days is done as we dropped her off at the Portland Airport. We saw Neah Bay, camped on the Hood Canal, backtracked through Portland to the little town of Halfway [Oregon], rode Hell's Canyon with Spirit...

The Olympic Peninsula. WA It was rough going through Portland and leaving behind Palouse Country. Cities and us do not get along very well. A great lunch with a Friend not seen in years did make it worthwhile as also picking up our Editor to show her a bit of the country for a couple weeks. All...

A bit of past and present Urbanism. Montana Today's News? Well, they are always all over the place, one in particular disturbed me greatly. You can read about it in our Journal. In the meantime we hovered for quite a few days within past History between Virginia City, Nevada City, Alder, Twin...

They were the worse there but fine around Ennis... Thank Tom. A Coffee Table Book this winter. Photography, maps, quotes... Print on demand as they are pretty expensive. Stay well. Montana! Gravelly Range Road and more… Montana's roads and spaces are always exciting times especially when...

Through Bear's Tooth Pass... WY/MT We went up through Chief Joseph Hwy and set up camp on Bear's Tooth Pass with much anticipation and our heads up high. A few days later, the mosquitoes won and near by Ennis, Montana, is where we are. The problem was not while riding but the frustration at...

Snowy Range Pass, Wyoming It is thought that the most beautiful spaces in this country do not have Internet. It is true. We have plunged into this other world today in Laramie, Wyoming, the one where laundry can be done, provisions purchased and then on escape back up to Snowy Range Pass which...