Adventure with a bit of Cottagecore

She/Her I post what makes me happy. Check out my travel blog: McGeetraveltales.com

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Hello! I only have one account and I blog anything that makes me happy or needs to be said!

I’m also a travel writer and videographer with an emphasis on talking about places that people can actually afford to visit. There is also a bit of gardening and food related stuff thrown in.

All of my posts are somewhere in my tumblr feed but if you want to find them easier, check out my link.

McGee Travel Tales

Exploring the Places No One is Talking About

Yes, I’m from Texas. Yes, there is a ton that is not good here. But there are good people and we work for and vote for things and people with the goal of a better future where everyone is equal.

McGee Travel Tales

McGee Travel Tales: Exploring the Places No One is Talking About Travel Consultant I love to go see the stuff that is on everyone's must s

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Every storm has a song if we can be hear it.

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Writing Club: Art & Madness

The prompt for this scene was to write an artist going mad as they attempt to complete their magnum opus, their great work. And the pieces that were written were fantastic. I know some very creative people. These pieces defiantly had a horror vibe. Trigger Warning: Blood. Self mutilation. Read at your own risk. Writing That One Scene I have to get this right. There is a word I’m missing, a…

Writing Club: Art & Madness

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Writing Club: Non-Fiction | Dinosaurs

When you give a nerd a chance to research… The prompt for this piece was dinosaurs or just extinct reptiles or extinct birds. The evolutionary splits are quite fantastic, but that’s a rabbit hole for an other time. This was either a loved or hated prompt because dinosaurs or animals alive during the days of the dinosaur don’t interest everyone and that is okay. The animal I discuss in this…

Writing Club: Non-Fiction | Dinosaurs

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the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

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@staff

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Submit a complaint, like we did with the reblogs update. probably won’t be as effective since they’re trying to comply in advance with legal bullshit that they take more seriously than the privacy of their users, but still.

Scroll the reblogs on the announcement for good points to raise. If nothing else, according to Tumblr’s own policy you have to be 13 years old to make an account, so any account that was made more than 5 years ago must be at least 18 years of age or is already breaking policy, thereby making it not Tumblr’s problem.

and please for the love of fuck don’t give them your ID.

For now, it looks like if you don’t hand over your identity, you’ll just be locked out of “mature” posts (which include paintings of fruit, but not sexually explicit ads, even though actual human-made porn isn’t allowed at all regardless of content tag). Worst case, you will be okay without tumblr. Believe me, I don’t want to leave either, but I will if the alternative requires me to doxx myself

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Writing Club: Character Description

The prompt for this piece was to write a character description. There were no requirements as to the character and this piece got some really interesting responses. One of my favorites was an inverse and it was the description of someone’s absence – it was a beautifully haunting piece. My piece is based off my novel that is currently in progress. This is not a scene from the book, this is simply…

Writing Club: Character Description

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Orcas Island: Mainland & San Juan Ferry

Orcas Island: Mainland & San Juan Ferry

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Writing Club: Thriller

The prompt for this piece was to write a genre that you don’t normally write or aren’t particularly good at writing. I picked a thriller. I read thrillers maybe once every other year – they give me anxiety. I was going to write horror but I actually write decent short horror. See my recent News Story. Trigger warning: This story does discuss murder. Because all thrillers need a dirty little…

Writing Club: Thriller

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Texas Spring

It’s already hot and muggy here but at least the wildflowers are beautiful. How is your spring going? Let me know in the comments. INSTAGRAM│TWITTER│YOUTUBE │PATREON Join my email audienceSubmitting form By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in…

Texas Spring

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Colorado: LomoChrome Purple 35MM Film

So while we were in Colorado I decided to test out some LomoChrome Purple 400ISO 35mm film. This film adds a purple tint to the photos. Okay, you can actually shoot this film at 100 to 400ISO but I think I shot this roll at 400. Having now used this film, I did figure out that the images really need something in both the foreground and background. The purple colors just look better that way. I…

Colorado: LomoChrome Purple 35MM Film

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Writing Club: Arts Story

For the last prompt in my newspaper series, the prompt was to choose an element from a newspaper that’s not necessarily a news story. People wrote everything from obituaries to classifieds to advertisements, sports stories, crime, and reviews. I went with an arts story, on a topic that I feel passionate about. I feel like I can write more on this topic but that it might become a rant so I ended…

Writing Club: Arts Story

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Colorado: Estes Park Adventures

We were in Estes Park for a family reunion and we did a ton of stiff while there. Some of this stuff we did with a lot of family, some was just with a small group. All of it was fun. We did a lot of things for a variety of fitness levels. The Via Ferrata was the most intense and the Aerial Tram was the least intense. Would you do any of these things? Have you in the past and what did you think?…

Colorado: Estes Park Adventures

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Writing Club: NEWS Story

The prompt for this week was to write a news story. This is obviously a fake story, but I did my best to write in the inverted pyramid news style of an actual news article that you would find in a newspaper. This was defiantly inspired by the Artemis II trip around the moon. The pictures alone are incredible. The actual science, math, and engineering that got us there is amazing. If you haven’t…

Writing Club: NEWS Story

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Colorado: Boulder Hikes

Eventually I’ll catch-up on all my travels and documenting them but this is not that day. I am getting closer though. Last summer we went to Colorado and I had time to take a couple of short solo hikes while there. I was really out of shape while on these hikes and funny enough this trip really made me realize that I need to work out more and yes, I have been doing that. These hikes were no more…

Colorado: Boulder Hikes

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Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon

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If you follow an illegal order, you are STILL committing a crime!

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Come wonder the quiet or Orcas Island with me. Waterfall, flowers, and quiet views

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Writing Club: Op-ed | No Banned Books

In my quest to take a deep dive into newspapers with the Denton Writing Club. I decided to do a prompt on opinion pieces, also know as op-eds. The topics could be legitimate or made up. Plenty of people discussed made up issues but many members, including myself wrote about real issues, everything from the need for more walkable cities with better public transit to issues of higher-level faculty…

Writing Club: Op-ed | No Banned Books

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Utah: Trip Preparation

A trip like this takes a lot of preparation. So much preparation in fact that I made two videos about it. This first video covers a gear prep overnight trip that my sister and I took to iron out any issues with our tack and expose the mules to a different environment before the Utah trip. This second video is more of a reflection video I did after we got back from Utah. This really looks at all…

Utah: Trip Preparation