Category: Travel
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Travel Ahead
In the next few posts, I look ahead and reflect behind. The typical sort of thing to do as the new year rapidly approaches and brings with it plans and changes. Most years bring these, yet I hypothesize that 2019 will bring quite a bit of change, much of it yet uncertain. That, however, is…
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Reset and Check – In
Although, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, my brain functions with the school year as my primary mental calendar, I take every opportunity to set goals which the turnover of a new calendar year also provides. At the beginning of the year, I set three main intentions: writing deeper, running deeper, and teaching deeper.…
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A Woman Alone – Travel Thoughts
Back in July, my father gifted a book titled A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe. I had never heard of the book before but the concept intrigued me for obvious reasons. Thanks to my book project I did not have a chance to read the book until the first week of this…
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2017 Travels – Road Trip Edition
I packed in quite a bit to this summer, so much that remembering things like where I put this notebook so I could type up the previous post. For that reason, I have just one post about the road trip rather than a before and after. The idea for a road trip first occurred to…
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2017 Travels – UK Edition – Lessons Learned
This post was supposed to go up last Tuesday. However, I very cleverly hid the notebook in which I had written the post by tidying up my room so that I overlooked the notebook when packing for my road trip. Thus, I had to wait until after to get the post up. This is what…
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2017 Travels – London Edition – Preparation
When this post publishes, Mom and I will be well into a long awaited jaunt across the pond. We started setting aside money in 2014. For as long as it took to finally get the trip under way, it is well worth it. Planning this trip looked a lot different than the others, especially from…
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Traveling on a Teacher’s Salary
So far in this blog’s short history, I have talked a lot about both traveling and personal finance. most of those posts have focused on the how. This post focuses on the why. Why do I choose to spend a comparatively high percentage of my income on travel and everything that goes along with it?…
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2017 Travels – Chicago Edition – Lessons Learned
One thought that occurred to me frequently throughout that Spring Break was “this is why I am frugal. I have prioritized my spending on what brings me joy.” That’s a post for another time. (This post was originally supposed to go up on May 2 but unfortunately something went wrong, most likely user error, and…
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2017 Travels – Chicago, the Preparation
After a year of no travel, I am beyond excited to get started on a summer filled to the brim with travel. On the agenda for the summer? The UK, Hilton Head Island, road trip to Maine/Prince Edward Island, and San Francisco. All of this starts with a sampler in Chicago which, when this post…
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Faith Rooted in Joy not Fear
Last Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the terror attack in Brussels, a radicalized British-born man drove his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge killing three and injuring forty before exiting the vehicle and fatally stabbing a police officer. The assailant was then killed by other police officers before he could…