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All my life my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

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Next chapter

I’ve been pondering this since I go back home and I think it’s time. My Kaya doggie can’t jump into the camper, nor up onto the bed because of her lack of foot and I’ve decided to buy a house ! I’ll get some other camper set up eventually – one that my gimpy dog can get into and onto the bed for snuggles. And with my wanderlust, this site and my adventure blog will continue.

I bought my Four…

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Thoughts on 2018

A little recap: In May 2017 I was offered a position with IBM in Columbia, Missouri and relocated back to the Midwest. That month I adopted a little Shih-tzu I named Sullivan (aka Sully) after the small town in SE Missouri from where he was found. http://no-destination.org/index.php/2017/05/08/no-matter-where-you-go-there-you-are/ I enjoyed my time in Columbia, Mo., and my work at IBM. In July…

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Destination : Home

Oof, been a bit since I updated. 

I left you off at Tucson after finding the puppy dog, Trinity – now renamed Kaya, after Kayenta, the closest town in Arizona from where I found her. 

I decided to relocate to Tucson. It made a logical sense – southwest where I love to camp and explore, university town, not too large a city but big enough to have lots to keep me entertained and fed, a good…

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Not All Who Wander are Lost...unless they are

Not All Who Wander are Lost…unless they are

Synchonicities and decisions.

After a nice visit, I left my friend’s house in middle-of-nowhere-not-far-from-Breckenridge Colorado. It had snowed for two days, first day had melted off, but forecast showed much more on the way. It was time to skedaddle. 

If I had remembered that another friend lived in southern Colorado, I would have gone to visit him and his wife. Instead, I drove to Valley of…

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Adventuring with Anxiety

This is a day-in-the-life snippet of how anxiety can affect me.  I want you to know you can adventure alone, as a woman, as a person with anxiety and panic attacks, and still have it be a good experience. 

September 29, 2018

I should have moved my camper to another spot here when I had the chance. Now it’s too late – all the spots are full and it’s dark outside.

It’s been five hours and I haven’t…

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Bumps in the Road

Bumps in the Road

(Bryce Canyon National Park, UT)

It’s not an adventure until something goes wrong, right?

I’ve had difficulty with  my solar set-up for ages – almost since I got my camper. The place from where I originally got it didn’t figure it out, so I put up with not camping in one location for longer than a day or two in order for my power generating to keep up with my power use. All I have is a little…

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"Finding Home Tour"

“Finding Home Tour”

I’ve been calling this the “Finding Home Tour,” but that’s bullshit.

(Hart Mountain Antelope Wildlife Refuge, Oregon)

You don’t ‘find home’, you ‘make a home’. You may find yourselfin a location that you chose, or maybe you ended up there because you followed someone 15 years ago, or it was where you went to college and you stayed, maybe you live in your hometown, or you got a job offer, or…

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gratitude

I know I wrote about this some in my previous post, but I’m so overwhelmed by the kindness of people that I feel a need to write more. In the past couple of months, people I hadn’t met before, old friends I hadn’t seen in 20+ years, old friends I last saw two years ago, and newer friends I’d only met once before all took me in to their homes, welcomed me with open arms, were most gracious and…

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Yachats, Corvallis, Yachats again

Yachats, Corvallis, Yachats again

I need to set some kind of routine for writing blog posts as I seem to be way behind in my updates! I’m currently in Enterprise, Oregon – at the NorthEastern corner of Oregon – visiting friends, but I need to update y’all about my wonderful time in Yachats and Corvallis! 

One of the things that’s impressed upon me during this “Finding Home Tour” and visiting friends, is how many people I have in…

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to the Olympic Rainforest

to the Olympic Rainforest

After leaving friends in Marrowstone Island, the dogs and I made our way to the north-westernmost point of the continental U.S.; Cape Flattery

The water is an amazing dark turquoise blue. Sully was mesmerized. 

Cape Flattery, and the town of Neah Bay are part of the Makah Reservation.  Click here: for little bit of information on the Makah People. 

The hike to the pointwas through lush…

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More catching up : Marrowstone Island, Wa

More catching up : Marrowstone Island, Wa

Between visiting with friends, sightseeing, and lack of interwebz connectivity, it’s a little difficult to keep up with my blog! Ha! I think I’ll just title them all “Catching up” until I get current. Maybe not – I’d have too many named the same!

Since my last entry, I’ve spent some really wonderful time with old friends in Marrowstone Island, just North-East of the Olympic National Park.…

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Flexible

One thing about being on the road is that you often don’t have an accurate timeline of your travels. You might find an amazing spot in a rainforest and decide to stay several days instead of your originally planned two nights. The drive towards the next location might have construction and take hours longer than expected, so you stop many miles sooner than what you’d thought. You see a mystery…

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Rockport Washington and the PNW

Rockport Washington and the PNW

After I left Spokane, I continued on my friend visit adventure and headed West to see some folks I knew when I lived in Seattle 1990 – 1994. 

Many years ago, they moved just outside the small Washington town of Rockport, Wa. in the North Cascades, on the edge of the North Cascades National Park. 

I got set up out front, nestled amongst the flower beds. 

Then the dogs and and I took a hike on a…

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Onward to Spokane!

One of the things I realized while boondocking in Montana was that I’ve done a lot of alone-time campering over the past few years and right now I have a unique opportunity to visit some old friends. As well, this is my “finding home tour” and that isn’t just about location – community is a giant slice of that pie chart. That’s when I decided to not continue north to Glacier National Park and…

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Update through Montana and Wyoming

Update through Montana and Wyoming

The dogs enjoyed viewing the Beartooths from afar while we were in Wyoming!

After a lovely rain storm and overnight with this view, I drove to Elkhorn Hot Springs, just outside of the teeny town of Polaris, Montana. The folks were nice, but the hot tub pool was being cleaned when I arrived, and wouldn’t be ready for many hours. 

I decided to set up camp there anyway, even with the $25 price tag…

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Hic Sunt Dracones

When I was seventeen my dad took me to Lake Tahoe. He’d rented some kind of condo room on the bottom floor, next to the lake, with our sliding door opening to a view of exquisite mountains in the distance.

Very soon after we arrived, I started feeling something I couldn’t describe. All I knew was that when I was outside I didn’t want to look directly at the gigantic mountains. They seemed unreal…

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Small spaces

My Four Wheel Camper isn’t huge. It’s rather small inside, actually. Most of the time it works great for me and the dogs – they hang out up on the cab-over bed, and I do my cooking and computering or reading in the main area when inside.

When I went on my previous no-destination adventure, I had this camper pretty set up for my daily needs. Just a few clothes, one storage container of food, only…

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