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Thu, 7 Jul 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [181]
HERE WE ARE, BACK IN COLORADO, We arrived jet-lagged, dehydrated and not accustomed to the altitude, then found out we both had Covid. Don’t know whether we picked it up on the flight home from Iceland—we were masked all the way for 10-hours—... Read more >
Sat, 30 Jul 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [177]
Phoenix is a huge city! Driving from Glendale to Chandler (northwest to southeast) takes the better part of two hours, so I can only imagine how long it would take to walk or ride my bike all over town, especially in triple-digit heat. Arizona called ... Read more >
Fri, 5 May 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [163]
A CONFESSION, “BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” is one of my favorite Chick-flicks. So when we saw a sign for the “actual” bridges, we just had to see where Clint and Meryl fell in love. Only six of the original sixteen bridges remain ... Read more >
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [148]
Aloha! As a child I always wished for my mother to take me to where she was born. Strung like a forming bracelet of islands deep in the Pacific blue, Hawaii sits over a volcanic hotspot in the Earth's surface. Flying to New Zealand with Hawaiian Airlines ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [138]
NOW THAT THE CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG—or rather the bones are almost out of the ground—it’s time to tell the real reason for our Denver Museum Hell Creek Road Trip.
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Sun, 28 Aug 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [117]
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK appeals to all of the senses. The bluest of skies, the smell of the pines on the cool breeze and birdsong mix together while Long’s Peak towers in the distance to over 14,000 feet. Throw in some good friends who just ... Read more >
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [116]
FOR MOST OF US COVID WAS A BAD DREAM; quarantines, social distancing and N-95 masks—like Donald Trump’s presidency—something best forgotten. The reality is that Delta, Alpha and Omicron are still here. They're killing about 100 Americans ... Read more >
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [115]
WHAT’S ON YOUR TRAVEL “BUCKET LIST?” We have been everywhere from Antartica to Zimbabwe so ours is more of a “been there, done that” list, filled with tick marks and a few scribbles of final additions in the margins.... Read more >
Wed, 5 Apr 2023 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [112]
My world has been thrown into a tail spin this past month. My Dad had a stroke nearly a month ago right after I finished an epic journey seeing komodo dragons and swimming with manta rays. That combined with the fact that I hadn't seen my family since ... Read more >
Thu, 1 Jun 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [110]
BACK IN THE OLD DAYS when the enemies of Democracy were Nazi Fascists and Russian Commies, not home-grown extremists, Rocky Mountain Arsenal produced some of the nastiest chemical weapons on the planet—not that we would actually use them! Well, ... Read more >
Sat, 20 May 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [98]
THIS IS OUR THIRD “SPRING BREAK” OF ‘23—or, if you prefer, our 3 rd chance to see Spring breaking. The first was back in March when almond blossoms popped their buds and bright flowers dotted the meadows of Sicily. ... Read more >
Wed, 24 May 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [96]
WE HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO MEET SOME OF our neighbors here in Colorado. A wiley coyote patrols the meadow behind our AirBnB (the same one we rented last year) and a great horned owl has claimed a lookout in a nearby cottonwood. And above us all towers the ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [93]
SELDOM HAVE WE SEEN COLORADO SO VERDANT this late in July. The early monsoon rains seem to have countered recent temperatures in the 90s and there are still pockets of snow on the high peaks of the Rockies.
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Sun, 2 Jul 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [91]
OUR WEEKEND ROADTRIP ACTUALLY BEGAN about 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly the size of New York City smashed into Earth, a calamity that wiped out the dinosaurs along with much of life on the planet.
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Fri, 29 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [89]
DESPITE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, we are not big fans of cruises. We generally take them as alternative transportation to flying or in order to reach out-of-the-way islands. Nevertheless, we’re off again, this time from San Francisco to Sydney ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [88]
I TOOK HER OUT TO THE BALL GAME. I took her out with the crowd! But we were detoured by Sunday’s Pride Parade—seemed like half of Denver was out in support—and didn’t arrive until the final strains of the “H-O-M-E-ofthe-... Read more >
Mon, 16 Oct 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [80]
COLERIDGE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD—just like the ditty “I joined the Navy to see the world. And what did I see? I saw the sea!” Except for stops in Honolulu and Papeete and Pago Pago, we didn’t see another ship until we neared ... Read more >
Thu, 7 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [69]
BACK ON TRACK, MORE OR LESS, Connie and I haven’t had a lot to post recently. Our lives this summer were pretty much the same as everyone else’s—time spent with friends sprinkled with visits to doctors, dentists, attorneys, accountants, ... Read more >
Sat, 23 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [61]
THE WEATHER IN SKAGWAY WAS TERRIBLE; cold, windy and wet. We have been in Skagway several times, even camped for a few nights, so no biggie. Nevertheless, we went ashore to stretch our legs and see what had changed.
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Fri, 15 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [59]
THE KENAI RIVER AND IT’S TRIBUTARIES have some of the best fishing in Alaska. Sometimes! As it turns out not only are we here too late for the Sockeye salmon run, we’re too early for the Silvers—and the river is running so high that ... Read more >
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [59]
FOR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN recommending an Alaska cruise to our less adventurous friends as a great travel baptism. We had spent a summer camping in Alaska, driving up the AlCan Highway in our Subaru, had visited Kodiak, Sitka and Juneau via the Alaska Marine ... Read more >
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [55]
ENEN A BEHEMOTH LIKE NIEUW AMSTERDAM starts to rock-and-roll in 25-knot winds and ten-foot seas. Landlubbers to the core, both Connie and I awoke during the night from the constant motion but we waited until morning to stick a motion-sickness patch behind ... Read more >
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [156]
The National Mall...I just can't get enough of it. D.C. simply has loads and loads (or in American terms, lots and lots) to see and do. It was warm and sunny today just like yesterday. Tickets for the Washington Monument were again booked out today. ... Read more >
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 | By annanderson | Views [70]
Apply the Dao Now
"I trust the right person will meet me where I am.”
If this mantra resonates with you, say it aloud now. Spend a minute with it. Feel into what it would mean for people to meet you right where you are.
Tags: be in the now
Mon, 20 Nov 2023 | By rtumicki | Views [82]
527: Count down to April 30, 2025. Yesterday was the day I decided to put a number to my imaginary line in the sand, hence 528. Freedom calls to be out in the world once again. Five days here and there for vacation needs to be expanded ... Read more >