Category: Travel
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Triple “H,” Weekend!
I enjoyable a weekend of Harvest Host Hopping driving a total of two-hundred fifty-four miles.
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Nicodemus, KS, 2023
African American families stayed in the area, settling on farms in the surrounding township.
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Love and Healing
Dreaming of nomadic travels roaming our planet, searching for tranquil moments surrounded by nature.
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2020, MN, ND, Harvest Hosts and destinations.
Six other RV’ers arrived and we closed down the tasting room.
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2022, Juneteeth honoring and celebrating heroes.
I attended the 2022 Juneteenth event at the Carter Farms of Unionville in Orange County, VA, honoring the freedoms of the enslaved who later suffered through “Jim Crow” ruthless tyrannical white supremacists through to the Civil Rights Movement, which continues today. As an African-American tax-paying citizen, my physical presence is a testament and the legacy…
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Dogs, cats or petless
The early morning dog walking before 6:00 am in the cold was extreme and brutal.
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Adventure vehicle maintenance
Ten thousand mile oil change and maintenance check by Toyota technicians.
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Voyagers National Park
International Falls MN becoming one of the best outdoor actives destinations in the U. S.
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Unique campground experience
There are iconic National Parks across the U. S. everyones eyes should gaze upon during their lifetime.
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Wintering in the Southwest
I enjoy the full hookups provided with a campground but I’m in love with the solitude of boon-docking.
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Arizona desert winter
Down deep in my childish soul are memories of hearing my mother’s voice. “You need to slow down and sit in one place for a while. Well, I have done it, Mom.
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A new nomadic era
I have been fortunate to encounter men and women whose wisdom I have taken to heart.
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“Traveling nomadic during a world pandemic”
Until a vaccine is discovered and everyone is inoculated, stay safe and healthy.
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"Big Cypress National Preserve & the Florida Keys."
An opportunity to capture photos and enjoy the beauty of the ride
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“Sacred spiritual site for all.”
A sense of reverence is experienced as you pass the enormous Coast Redwood Trees
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“My hiking and backpacking evolution. (part 1)”
After the Continental Divide Trail Days in April, I set off for the City of Rocks Campground in New Mexico, which is by far one of my favorite campgrounds. Although my visit was during the states fifth-season called “the spring winds,” the campground’s unique geological features are a visual marvel, with boulders 20-30 feet in…
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“My restless soul; (“Poetry”).
In the forest I close my eyes hearing insects buzzing and humming around me.
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“Everglades Panthers.”
Be aware of the panther crossing signs when driving in the Everglades giving these beautiful mammals a chance to live.
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Everglades “Waste management.”
These birds are the official and original waste management facilitators of the Florida Everglades
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“Wayside parks & Mosquitos.”
Once you exit your vehicle, your first experience will be the sultry humidity and soon the mosquito.
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“Rubber Tramp Rohndeveou.” aka RTR
My attempted winter destination for 2019 was the Quartzsite Arizona in Western Arizona. It is also the winter destination for several thousand RV’ers, Van dwellers, and everything in between. I first experienced this destination a year ago, as I rendezvoused with several thousand traveling nomadic and many wannabes converged on this destination to fellowship and…
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“Tombstone Arizona.”
After driving through falling snow during the day, I figured a quick side trip to Tombstone Arizona would be great since I could not imagine many tourists visiting in the near-freezing temperatures I expected the town to be a tourist location and it was all that and more. The history of Tombstone is a remarkable…
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“2018 Key West Fantasy Fest.”
Before I created this blog post, I took time organizing my thoughts to shape the narrative for the photos I captured during the 2018 Key West Fantasy Festival. I was ambivalent because none of the images represent any form of wildlife, wilderness landscapes or US National Parks. Since I began my nomadic travels around the…
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“Fellow World Travelers.”
It is always great meeting fellow travelers who seek nomadic adventures as we are a unique tribe of people whose experiences of the open road brings joys to our hearts.
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“Zombie bike ride.”
I recommend you visit Key West during the Fantasy festival with a daily schedule of events, there is something for everyone.
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“Some fun Mountain biking time.”
It has been three months of writing, editing, re-writing, editing, and a repeat of all with an occasional blog post. I recently took time for some mountain biking in Florida, at the Santos Trailhead, located south of Ocala Florida. Now, after riding the dirt trails in state and national parks in the western US, I…
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“Their love is with me forever.”
I recently viewed the movie trailer “Green Book” scheduled for November 21, 2018, release in the US, and it triggered my thoughts about my travels across the US during my lifetime. I was moved emotionally as I thought of my parents who suffered through their fears, worries, and concern for my safety in the 1980’s…
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Regular routine?
For the past several months, I have struggled with a writing routine as I traveled but, summer has eased into autumn, and I draw inspiration from quotes, by Gustave Flaubert. Capturing photos from around the US has been inspirational. I’m discovering a routing for my writing. 🙂 “Passionate happiness.” With many years of discovery, passion…
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Traveling soothes the soul.”
Recently while I was touring and photographing the West Rim Drive of Crater Lake in Oregon, I met a New Zealander in his late twenties, and a 66-year-old couple all of whom were northbound hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. I first noticed them descending a mountain using their trekking poles to guide and control their…
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“Womens Rights Museum.”
There are many unique museums and places I want to visit, learn and further understand American history. Many tourists and travelers see and reveal in video and blog postings the visual beauty of the locations they visit without explaining the history of the location, the people, their dreams and more importantly what we can learn…
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“New tent and picturesque islanding camping in Vermont.”
During the last couple of years, I have traveled mostly in the western US and back home to my much beloved Florida beaches and the Florida Keys, I have seen and witnessed many forms and types of camping, but the new phenomena is the roof-top tent. I have viewed thousands of Youtube videos about roof-top…
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New Mexico; Trail Days.
My freedom is traveling nomadically, one destination to another, exploring, discovering and learning. (MJL) In April I attended the 2018 Continental Divide Trail Days held on the Campus of Western New Mexicos University in the town of Silver City NM. The quaint little town is situated at 6000-feet above sea level and is an…
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“Meteor Crater.”
Many things in life are comfortable assumptions, like night or day, green light or red light, and a massive crater in the middle of a desert created by a meteor. About 50,000 years ago an unbroken stretch of the flat desert landscape was suddenly disturbed when a meteor streaking across the day or night sky…
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“2018 Overland Expo West.”
I attended the 2018 Overland Expo West gathering that brought people together from around the world to Fort Tuthill County Fairgrounds in Flagstaff AZ. This event is organized for anyone who is interested in everything connected and associated with short or long-distance overlanding any part of our planet. The expo has been etched on my…
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Arizona’s Route 89A, a scenic drive.
Everyone who visits Arizona always recommends the Grand Canyon and their next recommendation is usually the city of Sedona AZ to see the picturesque red mountains surrounding the town. Many travelers use some form of an electronic map on their cellular phone or the built-in mapping system in their vehicle providing the most economical way…
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“Petrified Forest National Park.”
Oh yes, the Petrified Forest National Park has been on my must-visit list for years, and my recent scenic drive tour has only conjured up plans for a re-visit to backpack the backcountry overnight and hike some of the incredible trails. The park was initially dedicated in 1906 and became a National Park in 1962.…
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“Places in the World.” (poetry)
There are many places in the world, but none compare to traveling to witness vistas, landscapes, and wildlife. My current place on this planet is the above photos inside Bluewater Lake State Park in Prewitt, NM campgrounds. At over 7000ft above sea level, my current vistas are spectacular, from sunup to sundown. The night…
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“Travel destinations and tours.”
My travel aura was projecting as I sat reading about my next destination inside my vehicle at an eastbound I-10 rest-stop in East Texas. Actually, it was my Florida tags Jess Duran observed who greeted me with a hearty “good morning and our conversation continued for the next hour or more about our travels past and…
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“I’d Rather Be.”
The weekly photo challenge asks the question where would you rather be. The following photos reveal where I would rather be as photography allows for the repeated return to moments when the original photo was taken, over and over and over forever. Within the past two years, I have traveled to many different locations…
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“Invisible.”
See my elegance? My jet black hair was cooked and processed with waves galore, against platinum silver and neon green, circumferencing from temple to temple rising to the cowlick above the top of my head. My head held high, arms across my chest, I stood erect and poised like the dandy I am, dressed in my…
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“Travel guts: A special mode of travel.”
For over forty years I have traveled around the US for which my family and friends were astonished by the journey and marveled at the destinations completed on a motorcycle. My mother, forbid me to tell her when, or where I was going but demanded I call her immediately upon my returned home. Adventure travelers…
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Travel Fears? “Carpe-Diem”
Within the imaginations of everyone who’s creative ideas and thoughts are inspired or influenced by anything seen on television, read in a book or magazine, can become a reality. MJL I was influenced by television shows like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, hosted by Marlin Perkins, National Geographic magazines and the used encyclopedias my mother bought.…
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“Travel, what title?”
When I began traveling in the late 80’s upon a 1987 Kawasaki touring motorcycle around the US, I never created or was bewildered with a title for what I was doing. However, over the years my family and friends have described me as crazy, unhinged, or weird to travel by motorcycle without no particular destination. Little…
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“Cozy Confessions.”
My thirty plus years of travel destinations are filled with photos and encountering people who are the inspirations for some of my creative writings ideas. In the beginning, I traveled via motorcycle across the US from coast to coast and border to border culminating with an inspiring road trip from Key West Florida to Fairbanks Alaska…
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“Relocate.”
For a weekend I relocated to Northern New Mexico in search of winter landscapes to photograph. My destination was the ski area in and around Taos New Mexico. I found sparse regions of snow and residents who were surprised by the lack of snow they usually would have experienced around the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I…
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“A tentative short story.”
Recreating a time from the past can be an adventure. Malcolm & Ethel Marshall, lived thirty-three wonderful years in a beautifully appointed retirement transitional housing community. They both retired at the ages of 67 and 65, and they are parents of three adult children, grandchildren and a couple of great-grandchildren. They were veterans of the…
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