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About Vagabond Boots
This is an outline of my thinking for near future development After the photo logs are complete. (summer 2004)
1955 - I Am 5 In My Parents '55 Chevy - Where does that road go?
1962 - I Am 12 & It Is 1962 & I Want a Bicycle - I have visions of traveling around the world on my bicycle... or at least until the road ends and around the next corner.
What Is Around that Corner... It Is Further Than I Can See...
1965 - My Parents Will Give Me Their 1955 Chevy Station Wagon and I Will Travel Around the U.S. and Live in It! I do not know how I will eat or clothe myself, but I have not realized that yet
1967 - David is traveling to England with his family for the summer. That is somewhere that is farther than I will ever be....but I want to go.
1968 - David is going to backpack the John Muir Trail... I am envious and I want to go.... Someday I will... I know that I will. I will make it happen.
1970 - I Have Planned the Next 4 Months Week End Travel With My New Husband but he is not interested.
1971 - If we sell our 1969 Fiat and walk or cycle everywhere we will have the money to travel to Europe next summer.
1974 - My mother sold her house and gave me $500 with the stipulation that I not use the money for bills, school or anything else that I thought was practical.
1979 - My boyfriend is going to backpack in the Grand Canyon and I want to go... I know I can do it. The seed sprouts.
1984 - I am not ready to cycle across the U.S. but Cycling Across Arizona seems manageable.
1987 - Traveling by Train Through Baranca del Cobre Mexico I'm excited and consumed with fear at the same time. I can feel and taste the fear and want to run and cry but I know that I am probably safe and that I must let go of the fear to be filled with the wonder of it all
1990 - Vagabond Boots - On the Appalachian Trail the vagabond within is christened with a name.
1994 - I Now Have the Money But Not Enough Time - My career is going great and my daughter is graduating from college. Since I have money but not enough time right now it seems like a good idea to help her travel to Europe.
1998 - I look through travel brochures and dream but I am afraid to go without a tour group and guide.
1999 - Chuck wants us to cycle the length of Baja Mexico when he first retires and it scares me but I know that I can not and should not stop him. This is the story of how I deal with my fear and figure out how to make it work for me.
2000 - My Husband Wants To Retire and Travel...I Love My Career - and I am afraid to let go of it.
2001 - Is is now my turn to quit my work and retire from the 8-5 life style. Retiring: From fear to vision and the leaping off and soaring. If I am going to leap then it has to be to Southeast Asia. Every photo I have ever seen of Nepal or the Himalayas is a magnet drawing me there.
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