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Strawberry Park Hot Springs Forever
Steamboat Springs, Colorado is probably one of my favorite mountain towns in the Rockies. With over 12,000 full-time residents, it feels homey, not touristy. Nature is incorporated quite well in the city making it easy for any outdoor enthusiast to get his/her outdoors on. The Yampa River runs through the town and there are paths…
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Microbrews, food trucks and cook outs, oh my!
Mine and Jon’s trip to Colorado was nothing short of amazing. I was happy to get of the Midwest after enduring mile after unbearable mile of flat terrain. After driving 2 days, we finally hit the Colorado border and set up camp at North Sterling State Park for the night. This was our second experience…
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Heading West: The Great American Road Trip Commences
Jon and I souped our truck and finally put the Northstar 850 SC slide in camper on top. It took two days to pack everything we own (I thought not much, but after cramming everything into every little crevice, it turns out we have a lot of crap) and finally hit the road. We started…
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Resources for working & traveling on an extended roadtrip
As I am getting ready to embark on an “extended roadtrip” of sorts, one of the biggest components of making it all happen is research. Jon and I have been spending countless hours of the internet compiling information we might need on the open road. In my experience, traveling usually requires two things above anything…
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Notes on nostalgia and loss
I am in a radically different place than I was a year ago. A year ago I was living in a tent in the rainforest under an avocado tree in Hawaii. I was hitch hiking barefoot with strangers. I was having the time of my life. My heart BURNS with nostalgia for those times. That…
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Life as a journey
Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that not everything can be figured out in one day. I “suffer” from wanderlust, the insatiable craving for new experiences, places and people. I relish in the unfamiliar, the awkward, unknown, the ugly. I yearn for experiences that scare me so I can prove…
Jill Meinecke 