Traveling is a wonderful adventure peppered with tiny unimportant inconveniences. Each journey I have been on in my life has always included someone for me to look after. Now I am by myself—on my own. My dog Minna not excluded but how much trouble can she be? Yet each...
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Some folks have emailed and twittered asking how I am managing in a little trailer with my right hand in a brace, quarters 3 feet by six feet = 36 square feet of floor space and no cabinets. No one ever promised this would be easy only that it would be an adventure...
An Old Literary Friend Re-visited.
Today Minna and I have settled in at Edisto Island Beach State Park—a palmetto-lined beach famed for its sea shelling, long soft-sandy beach, maritime forest and proximity to Toogoodoo Creek. Only an hour from Charleston SC, the park is divided: Section I—campsites...
Sticking Out Like a Sore Thumb!
ON THE ROAD!. February 1, 2010 Proud to say I am finally on the road following a delay that had me sticking out like a sore thumb. On December 28 I accidentally cut my thumb on a piece of framing glass lacerating a tendon. Fool that I am I bandaged it up and drove off...
Riding A Magic Carpet with Armel
In the olden days of Aladdin's Lamp there were magic carpets to help us find our way and comfort us on our journey. Carpets that would fly and carpets on which you could ride, nap, read a book, or just relax with your dog. Last month I unexpectedly found the perfect...
Tales of Christmases-Past, Hawaiian Style—Part II "ME and the OCTOPUS!"
Susan inflated her raft, then leapt aboard to do what she likes best: sun bathing and riding the waves. I sat down in the sandy shallows, slipped on my flippers and backed into deeper water. Applying spit to the inside of my goggles for haze proofing, I straightened...
A Tale of Christmas-Past, Hawaiian Style—Part One
I sit here on this wintry-cold night in Virginia, mid-way between Christmas and the New Year, my mind reaches back to years past when this time of year meant soft sand and warm sunshine for me. You see, for many years running, I had the good fortune of spending the...
Journey To The Valley of Fire
The Valley of Fire, some 35,300 acres, is Nevada’s largest state park, and derives its name from spectacular reddish marbled sandstone rock formations formed 150 million years ago by great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs. The Valley of Fire is a...
Norfolk Botanical Garden of Lights 2009
The good folks at Norfolk Botanical Garden have really outdone themselves this year. Someone with a less perceptive eye might say that the display hadn't changed that much from past years but it really has and in one really wonderful way. New three dimensional effects...
Luciee christened for first journey slated for January 1.
Today we have been preparing our blog to go live. Peeking out the window in Rutland, Vermont (at the home of my brother Mike Ahearn and his wife Sue) at Luciee the mini-trailer christened with her new decorative side panels announcing RemarkableJourneys.net. The...
