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/
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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#bookclub #travelreads #travelbook #reading #travelstories
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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Finally got the books for the first half of 2021 selected. These are for my Wanderlust Book Club. We read a different "travel" book each month. It is great fun to "travel" even when we can't. ⠀
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My favorite part about the book club is it gets me to read books that I might not normally pick up. And it is always interesting to hear the other points of view. Books that I loved, others couldn't wait for them to be over and books that I couldn't get into turn out to be someone else's favorite book. ⠀
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#wanderlustreaders #bookclub #wanderlustbookclub #travelbooks
This morning I was pondering my "Skills to Learn" list. I have a few new tech skills I want to improve and tools I would like to learn how to fully exploit. My list includes a few coaching areas to further explore and develop along with other odd ball things like; recipes I want to try, a few new pieces I want to learn on the banjolele, but one of the skills I have been focused on over the past several months is "storytelling". Not storytelling, like "tell me a bedtime story", but those can be fantastic as well. Stories that are focused on business and connections.⠀
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The benefit of story is connection. We feel connected through stories and they create a sense of belonging and understanding. Earlier today I spent a few distracted moments on the TED website browsing through TED talks about professional speaking. In this video, Chris Anderson discusses what makes a good TED talk. He touched on something that I have been whirling around in my head these past few days.⠀
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He said "…you have to get their permission to welcome you in" – and that word "permission" is something I've heard over and over again in sales and marketing books and talks. The idea being that before you can move forward, you have to get the other person's permission. Permission to send things off to their inbox, permission to reach out, permission to ask for the sale…and so what is this permission all about?⠀
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#story #storiesthatstick #storytelling #contentlab
Another one! Again this morning another European city is offering homes for €1 (or $1.20). This time it is a small Italian village in the southern region of Molise, Castropignano -- "a village topped by a ruined medieval castle, 140 miles southeast of Rome." Could it be more romantic?⠀
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I am silently shouting "Stop it!" as I scroll through the details shared in the article from CNN this morning. My desire to leave the country and retire in some quaint European village is always there, and sometimes the desire and need is stronger than others. Articles like these are just encouraging my day dreaming of far off places and romances with characters like Roux in the 2000 film, Chocolat. Of course in the film, Vianne moves to a small French village to create her dream of sharing the love and intoxication of chocolate with the world. I am sure Italy would be just as beautiful.⠀
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It's not that I hate my life or need to run away from anything. I love my life. I love where I live, my small Silver Lake apartment in Los Angeles, nestled at the top of a hill over looking the lake. I have a lovely patio just outside my front door where I can eat most of my meals outside in the fresh air and blue California skies. My kids are both self-sufficient and happily living their lives. My mom is visiting now and comes to stay with me often. I enjoy my work and friends. But the fact that I could just do it - makes it so much more tempting. I am no longer tethered to a place because of family or work. I stay here, for me. I like it here. But I could just as easily like it in Castropignano!⠀
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Do you ever think about just packing up and running away? I don't have anything to run away from, but it sounds exciting!⠀
#mondaymood #themondays #daydreaming #runaway #retirenow
Have you every thought about just selling everything and hitting the road? Meet Sarah who did just that! LINK AVAILABE IN BIO #realstoriesrealpeople #traveltales
Need a little inspiration for adventure? Meet Nikki who lives in Costa Rica! What a story! #realstoriesrealpeople LINK AVAILABE IN BIO @costarica_ctc #realstoriesrealpeople #traveltales #costarica #expat
![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](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/218012972_346815643495796_1079196229489648775_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-4&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=1joSdZYvGAsAX_-Uci2&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=9d823e6cdd0eb04ce6cf9219aba7ad81&oe=611257E6)
