Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas! We’ve been on the road for more than a month and have enjoyed watching the holiday season light up around the world. I hope you enjoy these scenes from Malta, Spain and the U.S. on this day of celebration and togetherness. Cheers! Kelly
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Surprise! Pack your bag and get yourself to the virtual jet. We’re off to the World Cup and more! It has been months… 11 long months… since I last posted. In the time that has passed, three people in my immediate family have had major surgery (myself included). I’ve chosen to disengage, step away from social media and truly give
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Merry Christmas! From Lake Tahoe, I wish you and yours a day of love, near or far, together or apart, present or in memory. It’s been months since my last post, which was the culmination of blogging every day for one year through the ups and downs of the pandemic. I stepped away after that last post on April 6th
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December 31st, 2020 Happy New Year’s Eve! Our greatest achievement this year may be surviving to the end of it. I keep coming back to the idea that although this has been a year of tragedy and despair, silver linings are everywhere. My silver linings for 2020:• Time: to blog nearly every day, something I hadn’t planned on doing and
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December 5th, 2020 It was a “Pull over!” kind of sunset on Thursday. I was driving home along the east shore of Lake Tahoe. It started out as a pretty golden glow on the water and, in 15 minutes, exploded into a fiery swath across the sky. I pulled over to capture it and everyone else did, too. For a
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November 30th, 2020 Have you heard the news? The world’s biggest traveler has arrived in Cambodia. Kaavan, known as “the world’s loneliest elephant” was transported yesterday from a zoo in Pakistan to a wildlife sanctuary outside Siem Reap. After decades of neglect and eight years of loneliness following the death of his female companion in 2012, officials in Pakistan agreed
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October 17th, 2020 Tomorrow we continue north on our road trip and cross into Wyoming. We’ve had a blast exploring Utah over the past few days and hope to return sometime next year to see Capitol Reef National Park, which we didn’t have time to include on this trip. As is typical of any road trip in the U.S., I’m
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October 13th, 2020 Two stops on today’s leg of the journey: Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park and Zion National Park. The light was bright and the sand was fine at the dunes — finer than granulated sugar; the kind of sand you see in an hourglass; a light tint of coral pink. This state park is an anomaly hidden
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