camping

i have so many photos to share this week, that i’ve decided to split them up into two different //week twenty eight// posts. yay! last week i spent the entire week off the grid.…

about a month ago, lina + i did something that i loooove to do: we went camping. my brother, nick, announced to us sometime in august that he thought we should go camping as…

recently i read the book wild by cheryl strayed… a memoir about a woman searching for a reset button on her life. she decided the way that she would do that was by walking the…

nestled way back in the mountains of madison county, deep in the pisgah national forest, lies a tiny, little mountain town named hot springs. there’s not much there. a railroad track – which is…

yesterday (sunday) was my dad’s 70th birthday, so my brother, lina + i decided that to celebrate his big day we’d head out to the woods to do a little family camping. of course,…

i have to go to marfa, texas. you see, my love is in the process of sketching a tent for one of her graphic design classes, and that got me thinking about a place that i…

now that i’m living in the usa again, i’m all about road trips. and camping. and the wild west. you know, embracing life by living it simply. i’ve been lucky enough to visit the…

it’s word of the year time! and, as you can tell by the title, my word for 2014 is paradise. it came to me one day in december during one of my fika meet ups.…

you knew that when i said i’d be headed out into the wilderness, i ‘d be taking my camera along with me and snapping away… and then, posting tons of photos for you to…

today is sweden’s national day – a national holiday that’s a bit like the 4th of july, but not quite so over-the-top/extreme. mother nature delivered a top notch day, perfect for doing what swedes…

hi friends! long time, no post… huh? geez, i have missed y’all. i’ve missed writing and posting, but i have been super busy the past 4ish days. and i do believe that the busy-ness…

there are some days that i just wanna pack up a car and go. fill the cooler. stock up on coffee, wine, pancake ingredients, bacon, eggs, hot dogs, and granola bars. grab a few…

for the first time in a few years i have this unbelievable desire to go camping. not that i have never wanted to go camping – i’m always up for it. but, there hasn’t…

the other day (ok. the other week.) laura over at german-american abroad, surprised me & tagged me to do a post revealing my most secret travel confessions. i’m sure she thinks that i’ve completely…

i came across this quote today in a touching blog post i read… without getting into some discussion about creation from a scientific or religious viewpoint (because i can & do believe that religion &…

i just re-read the post i wrote before i left for my week of camp, and noticed that i was expecting to find solitude and rest. well, my week in the archipelago didn’t turn…

i live in the middle of the city, so the few trees that line the streets or are dotted around the parks mean a lot to me. whenever i get a chance i stop,…

what can i say? i’m a happy, happy camper! we made to the states, had an amazingly over-the-top awesome experience with passport/border control (= we were treated as the married couple that we are!!).…