Aaaahhhh Vacation. Sweet sweet getaway from reality, mobility, and internet connectivity….oh I could have connected over our 5 day trip in Dominican Republic, but I choose to take a tech break. Our trip to Dominican Republic last week was full of firsts for me. I’ve done a ton of travel in my time, but never [...]
It’s so sad when your first love takes a back seat to everything else. Real life has crept in at a frightening pace. Bills, pets, houses, cars, clients, charity event planning….all these things have placed me solidly in the real world and stepped me further and further away from my travels. But in a couple [...]
Up to this point Random Gypsy Ramblings has been….well…random. I’ve jumped around from travels here to travels there and have not gone in any kind of chronological, nor for that matter logical, order. My travels span 15 years of traveling, backpacking, driving, diving and sailing. In telling the stories I’ve seen them as vignettes. Short [...]
Travel adventures in my life have usually meant taking off for exotic locals, sailing around islands, jumping off bridges or scuba diving in tropical reefs thousands of miles from home. Just last week I was lamenting the fact that I was missing travel, while at the same time trying desperately to get settled in. Saturday [...]
I’ve been remiss in writing about travels lately. I can’t quite explain why, but I think it’s about trying to get settled in to my new digs. Whenever I pull out my journals to travel back in time to adventures and world trekking I find myself longing to be back on the travel road. With [...]
Traveling back 10 years ago almost to this day, I remember sitting on the floor of my grandmother’s condo emptying the pots out of her cabinets and crying my eyes out. I wasn’t anywhere exotic, I was in West Palm Beach Florida. My grandmother had just died and I couldn’t believe I was packing up [...]
Many inner journeys happen while traveling on outward adventures. Today I’m flipping through a dark blue notebook I picked up in Africa. During my second trip back to teach again at Sodwana Bay in South Africa I encountered a woman who had defeated herself before she ever got off the ground…or under the water as [...]
Holy Crap, I’m missing some of my travel journals! I have 8 colorful journals sitting on my book shelf that I thought were all my travels. I was feeling kind of India today, I wanted to grab my journal from India and float back in time…. but it’s not here! I kept grabbing journals leafing [...]
I have dogs on the brain… an old high school friend posted a picture of a great dog needs a home because his owner is being deployed. I’ve been wanting a dog desperately but it never seems to be the right timing. When I was on the travel road, it was definitely not prime, however [...]
I just found the root of why I never found my travels very impressive. People often told me I should write a book, but I would tell them I’m not unique there are other people traveling around the world and I’m nobody. Who is going to read my story? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve started [...]