Category: musings
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2010 Journal – Chapter 35
The final days June 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM Saturday June 19th, 2010Airports (Edinburgh, Stansted, Heathrow) I’m leaving for home today, the hard part of leaving Stuart came and went, I’m still a puddle because of it. I saw another girl crying over likely leaving someone, I really felt her pain and looking at her…
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Climb Mountains – Even Small Ones
I went hiking yesterday. It did not go well. My water bladder didn’t seal right (my fault) so I lost half my water, which was comfortably all over my backside leaking from my backpack. It was really sunny and hot, even at 8,600 ft. above sea level. I got altitude sickness. I took a wrong…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 18
I read this ten years later and all I can think about is that I had no idea how hard the next year (2011) would be. Goodbyes would be the catalyst of many hard nights for a college freshman. Goodbyes would be the reason I had years of therapy. Goodbyes would continue to haunt me…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 15
May 5th (on May 4th) 2010Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom Yesterday I awoke to the unpleasant sensation of not being able to swallow without a large amount of pain. Thus I realize I am now getting a cold and knowing how I am it will likely only get worse over the next few days. Thus…
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Going Forward – Work with a Travel Agent/Advisor
Many people are facing a whole lot of mess when it comes to closures, cancellations, and overall issues with Covid-19. My team has spent the last six weeks cancelling almost everything we had booked for spring, summer and fall 2020. While it’s sometimes unsettling to cancel travel plans, we also know the value we all…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 13
Edinburgh May 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM May 2nd 2010Stirling, Scotland (but writing on Edinburgh) Since leaving you all on Thursday night many things have happened broadening my horizons more and more. Thursday night as I told you I was going to check out the local club scene and being it was only a 5…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 12
The Ash Cloud of 2010 required several changes of plans during my travels. Around April 30, 2010 I thought I had a new schedule that was good to go, but in reality life had other plans and 19-year-old me got swept up in the romance of new meetings. As a travel advisor ten years later,…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 1
I had a lot of free time 10 years ago. I was single. I worked full time in a fossil shop. I lived at home. While I “took care of myself” paying for gas, nights out, and much of my food, I didn’t know what all adulthood entailed. The fossil shop got minimal foot traffic…
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10 Years Ago – Forward
As we sit in our homes, or our communities, more or less “stuck” with our lives, I am personally reflecting on my journey that began 10 years ago today. On April 7, 2010 I took a cheap suitcase, a massive paper book, and two travel guides and I got on a British Airways flight direct…
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You’re Grounded – Now What?
A lot of us are facing cancelled adventures, flights, family visits. If you haven’t and you’re traveling anytime before August, you might be facing it really soon. You are GROUNDED….so now what? I personally will not get to attend a conference I was looking forward to for almost a year. It also meant time in…