Interesting how I said “the road and beyond” in the subject line. I mean, when one is on the road, ‘beyond’ is a natural state of being because one is mostly on the move. There is “beyond that next curve”, or “beyond our next gasoline stop”, or “beyond here, where should we go?” and so [...]
We are currently making our way home to face bills, life challenges and who-knows-what, and still have about a thousand miles to go. Going home to who-knows-what is a different challenge than traveling to who-knows-where. When we first started this road trip, the excitement of all possibilities was present as we followed Spirit through mountains [...]
The miracles and surprises along the way, small and large, continue to pour into our lives. This is a brief posting, as we say good bye to Prescott AZ, and head off to stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon (life long dream of mine). We finally tore ourselves away form the cozy cottage [...]
I woke up early and restless, and was going out to take a walk before the temperature reached into the triple digits Fahrenheit. Jim joined me in the driveway of the cottage, and suddenly turned to me, whispering, “Hear that? Its javelina grunts!” Squatting down to look into the next door underbrush, there they were: [...]
Yesterday, since the day had the luxury of no appointments to it, we drove up to a breakfast restaurant in uptown Sedona on our way to finding a creek side place to “baptize” Jim. More on the baptism later, but first let me tell you about our breakfast… Here in Sedona, just about everywhere you [...]