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Maui exists!
In Maui, the marvels are as abundant as the vowels, and they all flow rhythmically together. The fresh water (wai) streams of the windward side run adjacent to deep ocean water before releasing into it. This wetness is offset on… Continue reading
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Catalina Dreaming
We are freshly back from a long weekend trip to Catalina and I am still brimming with excitement and a reinvigorated lust for adventure. I just love taking weekend jaunts, 2 or 3 night adventures, with the family. After 20… Continue reading
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Music Festivals with Kids, It Takes a Village…
This past weekend we went back to the Joshua Tree Music Festival in the Mojave desert. The festival has become a bit of a Grim family tradition, with this edition marking Jade’s fourth trip to the event and Sebastian’s third. … Continue reading
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European Thoughts – Kids Pace Travel
Its true, it was really tough traveling like backpackers with the kids through Europe. That said, areas of weakness are often the source of strength or unique advantage. The downside to schlepping small children through train stations like they were… Continue reading
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Baja is fresh in Ensenada
Ensenada means “bay”. That was the first thing I decided that I needed to know after booking a hotel in the town of Ensenada de Todos Santos and committing to a road trip down the Pacific coast and into Mexico. Is Mexico safe… Continue reading
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Sebastian’s 3rd Birthday, and the perils of Relativity
My dear boy Sebastian turned three years old, and we had a great party for him in Marina del Rah (pronounced like a Californian). My wife Tania had, fittingly, picked the park at Mother’s Beach for the pirate-themed party that… Continue reading
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Scoring for the Other Team
I scored two goals today in the first round playoff game for our Sunday soccer league. Its cool how scoring a goal always carries with it some of the same smell and taste, no matter the competition. You get a… Continue reading
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Have Tribalism, Will Travel
December 2016 Our lives play out in ritual. Virtual pep rallies for our various tribes. Football games, political events, team-building exercises at work – they all serve to reinforce our sense of place within the herd. Belonging to a team also… Continue reading
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Feeding and Fighting Familiarity
Everything is a balancing act. The natural counterbalance to our lives of adventure is found in the maintenance of the familiar. A familiar partner, workplace, exercise routine, a familiar set of values and passions – these are the building blocks… Continue reading
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Yosemite is sooooo Yemity!
I had been here before. It was the early 2000s and I was on a trek through the Alpine regions of Yosemite National Park that saw me and two buddies scale Half Dome, summit Glacier Point, and suffer a million… Continue reading
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