Travel Stories: Calgary & Banff, Alberta Canada

Mother and Daughter Annual Trip 2019 - We began doing these annual trips over seven years ago. Wow, how lucky are we to have seven years of exploring and traveling together as mother and daughter?! It is rare for a city to have an immediate positive effect on me, especially on the first day. Calgary was …

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up in the air

Commonplace events can be unnerving if not practiced on a regular basis I have found flying to be one of those things   Over thirty thousand feet up A gut-wrenching realization squeezes the wind out of me dazed and dizzy Surrounding mumbling passengers comfortably unaffected   Every takeoff of every gapped trip postponed vacations feels …

6/12 – Heart Transplant

In a foreign country and in need of an immediate heart transplant. They were terrifyingly barbaric in their third world medical practices. The process consisted of taking the heart out of the patients mouth and swallowing, or the ‘doctors’ forcing, the new one down until it set into place. This all takes place while the …

Travel Stories: 9 Days in Costa Rica

Peering out the airplane window as the plane was descending, my eyes were met with gray clouds, lightening, and heavy rain. My first thought was that the weather forecast was correct, and my brother and I were going to have nonstop rain for the duration of our trip. This was something we had planned, packed, …