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On a Precipice

On a Precipice

This feeling of teetering on a ledge has been strong these past few weeks. I realized that it might help to assuage that feeling if I had more of a plan in place so I went to the campering forum of folks who also have truck campers like mine, where I’ve made a number of friends over the past few years. I wanted to look for ideas of places to go on this trip, and I glanced at my profile…

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mini-update

mini-update

I just realized that my “mail chimp” program that auto-sends you an email when I post a new blog post has been paused! The horror! Hopefully, I fixed that just now, so I’m posting this to catch y’all up since I’m getting back to adventuring! Here’s “Getting Back on the Road!”  http://www.no-destination.org/index.php/2018/06/30/getting-back-on-the-road/ and the most recent “Making Plans”  http://www.no-destination.org/index.php/2018/07/02/making-plans/ If you haven’t already subscribed, put your email address in where is says “Subscribe to No Destination” on the right side bar, and…

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Making plans

Making plans

In three parts. I. I’ve been ruminating this past week about what to do with all my stuff. I have a small Uhaul storage unit for my climate controlled items (books, mostly), and my motorcycles and garage stuff is at a friend’s place. It’s tempting to just donate it all, but the problem is … I rather like my books, have a couple of boxes of dad paperwork and photos, my truck rear seats that I took out when I…

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Getting back on the Road!

Getting back on the Road!

We’re going back on the road!  This time, more of a North-westerly direction because it’s too damn hot in my beloved Southwest. I’ve got an opportunity to work remotely for a couple of months, so I’m taking advantage of this and going explorin’  First stop is southern Illinois to visit mom and old friends, then north. I’m thinking of heading up through North Dakota on I-90 (visit the Minuteman Missile Visitor Center, Badlands, Crazy Horse Memorial), over to Wyoming for…

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On loneliness, being alone, and community

On loneliness, being alone, and community

(ice storm. Jan 2017. Carbondale, Illinois) A dear friend of mine in Carbondale who works in hospice and I were talking about the nature of loneliness. I find it somewhat ironic that I have felt far less lonely since I took off on this road trip alone than my last two years in Arizona. She talked about the loneliness of dying people and how nothing external seems to help someone who has that particular heartache. She told me about a…

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nothing endures but change

nothing endures but change

This used to be a working soda fountain. In high school, we could drive out to Pomona for a malted or a gen-u-ine root beer float. When my grandparents died, we planted trees for them at the Unitarian Fellowship. Time passes, trees grow. Nothing endures but change. Turn and face the strange. Tomorrow, I go back on the road.