Category Archive

Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Travel + Nature”

We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any persons whom you have ever met, even if you have just exchanged a glance on a bus, have become a part of your being and consequently you are, in some sense, responsible for them. You carry them in your heart.

Native American Proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

"Hope" is the thing with feathers– That perches in the soul– And sings the tune without the words– And never stops–at all–

Emily Dickinson

Getting Lost in Independence

Freedom rings true, even in, or most especially during, disorienting times. Remember that day when you first learned to ride a bike without the training wheels? When the grace of gliding and pedaling with just two wheels elevated your spirit to new heights of belief in yourself? Independence! Strength! Travel! Well of course, maybe when we were children the experience …

A wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world.

Washington Irving

Hydra: a gem in the Saronic Gulf of Greece

Living and Traveling in Cyprus

A different kind of travel first brought me and my husband to Cyprus. Our first official housesit through the trustedhousesitters.com website was a 3 month assignment on a small island in the eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus is located 40 miles south of Turkey and 65 miles west of Syria and is the 3rd largest island in the Mediterranean. Why live in …

A Mosaic of Cyprus Adventures

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, diseases, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools--only Uncle Sam can do that.

John Muir 1897

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