Many of us {cough cough most of us} have had at least one one-night stand. That guy you met at the airport bar, your friend’s cousin that weekend you all rented a house at the beach, that Tinder date last week... If you’re a sexually active adult not in a committed relationship or married and …
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Cross country travel by train— Not for the light of heart, but worth the crummy night’s sleep My first time taking a train in the United States and I boarded it from San Fransisco and took it all the way to Chicago— the entire length of Amtrak's California Zephyr route! While the station was what …
Running the risk of sounding like such an Ohioan where we are a rather homogeneous bunch— California was surprising because there are so many different types of people; the real hippies who sometimes appear to border homeless, the actual homeless, the reality stars and wannabe reality stars, techies, registered and unregistered migrant workers, the endless …
It’s so funny how leaving a place makes me reflect on what I’ve learned there and how I’ve grown. I remember looking back at my journals from Phoenix and being shocked that I had survived to that moment without the life lessons that I learned there. I feel the same way about Vancouver. Does everyone …
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When do you know your summer on the road has come to a close? When your car is stolen. So many things have changed. Two minutes after walking in from my morning meditation, my friend Gema who I'm staying with in Vancouver walked over to me in the kitchen as I'm pouring my coffee and …
What started this whole summer on the road was my mom and I already being halfway out here and my friend Michael asking me to join him, his girlfriend Leah and their friend Eric on a camping, hiking trip to Mount Rainer National Park (NP), Olympic NP and North Cascades NP. Michael is the planner …
Mitchell’s accident happened on Wednesday June 25, 2014. His body was recovered on July 7, 2014; what would have been his 26th birthday. Because his body was in West Virginia where the autopsy had to take place and we were having services in Ohio where we lived, we couldn’t have services until July 11, 2014. …
This is a love fest so if you’re fighting with your mom or pissed at your sister. Skip it. Haha For the past 12 years I have spent two weeks in Corolla on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with people …
You heard it here first. Arkansas has great yoga! At least in Matt and Holly! Yes, I went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina by way of Arkansas. Some might say not my wisest of directional choices, but I was delivering precious cargo! My dear friend Kenzie and her friend (my new friend!) Olivia …
Well the Austin fun had to come to end sometime, but what better reason to head home for a long weekend than the wedding of a dear friend?! I secured a plus one (potentially tricky) and hit the road from Austin and Hot Springs, AR. While being the first nationally protected land as Hot Springs …
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