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Book club tonight!! Join is if you like. [link in bio]

Did you know The monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do. Some fly as far as 3,000 miles to reach their winter home! This month we are reading Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman

Tomorrow is Ts-iuk-shan!!

Sunday was travel kit day
#rebeltour #travelninja #remotework #travelkits

We heard about t Sara from the Smithsonian Magazine. They did a lovely article about her, (see bio for link). Her book, Bicycling with Butterflies is our August book.

I am eager to read Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman and to hear more about her journey, following the Monarch butterfly migration, over 10,000 miles. The book is full of stories of all of the folks Sara met along the way, the farmers, citizen scientists, enthusiastic schoolchildren and fellow researchers. This is a journey supporting Sara's passion and I expect that to pour out onto the pages. I can't wait to get started on this one.
Butterflies and Bicycles https://explorationwarrior.com/2021/07/31/butterflies-and-bicycles/

Tonight's the meeting, join us for a chat about the street food of Viet Nam.

This book is making me hungry. [Reading Eating Viet Nam, by Graham Holliday with our book club, for July]
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-vietnamese-recipes-4685186

This is what happens when you fall down the rabbit hole. Look at this in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Croatia!

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3542873?guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=a9165dca-aa80-4376-b609-73ba93cc4061

Do you collect recipes when you travel? While we were cruising in Ha Long Bay, they crew served this amazing sweet potato soup. My friend Jane and I asked the server if we could get the recipe. We were surprised that they not only said yes, but that they also handed us this sweet, hand written recipe from the chef. What are some of your favorite dishes you've eaten during your travels?

Eating Viet Nam, written by Graham Holiday, is our July book. This book will take us down alleyways, across rivers and into small corners of the city, where there are small smoking grills and little plastic table tops covered in fresh produce.

The sidewalk and grass was damp from a light mist this morning. No rain yet, so I got my walk done. Thanks mom, for walking with me!⠀
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Getting up early means I am able to do a few things for ME, like read a few pages of the book my friend Celeste dropped in the mail a few days ago. ⠀
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Early hours are the best!

Are you reading along? Question for ya … 'Some readers have trouble with Latour due to his lack of passion and sometimes even coldness. Is this how he struck you?"⠀
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The Wanderlust Book Club is reading Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.⠀
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Join us, LINK IN BIO⠀
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#bookclub #travelreads #travelbook #reading #travelstories

Happy New Year!! Let's look up, look forward and smile! A new day, a new year=HOPE!! #hope #newyear2021

I have been working on my "catalog" my stories. Here is my list of stories I want to share:⠀
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–The time I lost my jacket on the bus⠀
–The time I drove to Albuquerque⠀
–The time I packed ice skates in my suitcase⠀
–The time I sailed into Hurricane Hoe⠀
–The time my neighbor stole my dog gate⠀
–The time I ate lunch with Steve Martin⠀
–The time I zip lined in Costa Rica⠀
–The time I moved a TV with a skateboard⠀
–The time I watched a drive-in movie from the hilltop⠀
–The time I met the Night Stalker⠀
–The time I saw my first Marilyn Monroe film⠀
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Seeing my life in a list like this makes it look like I have had quite an adventurous life. And I guess I have. Along with the list, I am taking a few minutes to write out the story. Next I need to find the right moment to share it.⠀
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Stay tuned folks, these stories may be coming your way soon. I am really enjoying this writing – "down memory lane".⠀
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What are your stories? Do you have a list of adventures to share? Sure you do, we all do.⠀
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#stories #storiesthatstick #lifeisanadventure

I expect to learn a great deal reading this month's Wanderlust Book Club selection. We select books about travel, far off places, or a journey. This book, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather falls into the category of "a journey" as the two priests travel from Sandusky, Ohio to New Mexico in the late 1800's. This journey takes over a year for the men to complete and they travel across the new land by train, riverboat and then overland.⠀
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I was not raised in the Western United States, so my school history teaching did not include much about the Mexican-American War (which took place between 1846 to 1848)**. I am eager to hear more about this part of history and the fall-out of the conflict. I am also not Catholic and know very little about the Catholic faith, except what I have gathered from sporadic readings and of course TV and film. New Mexico is not a place I have spent much time. I have traveled through and paused occasionally, but I know very little about it. Maybe because of these things I would not normally choose to read this book. It was a recommendation from a friend and book club member and that is one of the beautiful things about a book club; reading other people's book choices. It expands my views, my knowledge, my outlook and my awareness of the world⠀
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Although this is a fictional work, it is loosely based on the lives of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, . It also includes historical references to the the story of the Our Lady of Guadeloupe, a discussion of the Long Walk of the Navajo and the murder of an oppressive Spanish priest at Acoma Pueblo.⠀
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If you are interested in joining the journey with me, you can join the Goodreads Book Club or the Facebook Group and join us on a Zoom call on January 26 to chat about our discoveries. –> LINK IN BIO⠀
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#bookclub #travelreads #travelbook #reading #travelstories⠀