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Previous posts in this series: Planning, Driving West, One Week in Albuquerque As written about previously, we planned a trip to Albuquerque to watch the total lunar eclipse. Reasons being: it was not visible in the eastern US, we tried and failed to visit Albuquerque last year, and I felt the general drier weather of the region would give us a better chance for clear skies and success in seeing [...]

We are on a road trip to New Mexico and Colorado, with a week in Albuquerque (timed to watch the lunar eclipse), a week between Santa Fe and Taos, and a week in Denver. This previous post covers why we picked Albuquerque as our first stop to see the lunar eclipse. Since the drive each way from the east coast is 3 days, the total trip will be 4 weeks. [...]

I've become a little obsessed with the moon in recent years. Hard to say when it started exactly, but perhaps it was enjoying looking at the full moon when we caught it right, bright in the sky, when driving on our many road trips. With a lifetime mostly spent in New York City, watching the moon isn't an activity that is easy to do or accessible given all the tall [...]

Last I posted, we were in the middle of a road trip to New Mexico. The first entry in the series was all about why we decided to take this trip and how we planned it, and the 2nd one covered our first day on the road, and visiting Memphis. At the time we planned the trip, we hadn't looked that closely into the quarantine situation in New Mexico. It [...]

We have kicked off our road trip to New Mexico. Tuesday was day 1, and we drove to Memphis that day, where we are spending 3 nights. Previous Post: New Mexico Roadtrip: Planning Tuesday was spent driving. All day. The total distance turned out to be 720.6 miles. We started around 7am eastern time, and checked into our AirBNB around 8:45pm central time, which is almost 15 hours door to [...]

We love to travel, and that is one of the reasons we are working on financial independence and a lifestyle that affords us the flexibility to work from anywhere, and therefore travel whenever we want to. This week we are embarking on a 3-week road trip to New Mexico, and this post kicks off a new series about this trip. ============ A little over a year ago, our youngest went [...]

August is National Wellness Month, and we are celebrating all month with posts related to wellness and self-care. ===================== Well, I did it. Ran every day in the month of July! 31 runs and 147.9 miles. Early in the month I wrote about why I was attempting this challenge, and why I wouldn't be upset if I didn't finish. But I did finish! Here's the proof - 31 days of [...]

I do a lot of running. I've been running very regularly since approximately the summer of 1994, which is the year after I finished college. My running log in Excel goes back 21.5 years, all the way to Dec 26, 1998! During my 21.5 'running log' years, I've run 11,495.2 miles (as of July 5 2020), completed 22 marathons in 17 states, 34 5k's, and covered and raced every distance [...]

This is part of an ongoing series where we highlight things that we love about Costa Rica. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Costa Rica has become the first country in Central America to allow same-sex marriage. This process has been a long time coming - it was back in January 2018 that Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that all of it's signatory countries (which includes Costa Rica) must grant [...]