Always a lot going on..

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I have had a serious of "near zero days" (reference hiking jargon), but I think they mostly just seem like zero days. I am getting stuff done, just not at 100% efficiency. Not sure anyone can move with 100% efficiency... Anyhow, I am planning on starting my next journey on May 1st. -- more details as they unfold. I know what I like and dislike. I know what turns me on and off. It's time for that knowledge to be guidance. We booked a trip to Wyoming/Yellowstone park in a few weeks. It will tackle at least three items that have been on my list 1.) Visit Yellowstone (in winter). 2.) A longish snowmobile trip. 3.) A visit to Wyoming. That will be my 50th state. That will make it all US states, 100 countries and all continents. I will likly be getting involved with MTP (Most Traveled People) https://mtp.travel/ where they break countries into regions. I decided I like this music. DiDuLa - "On the way home"
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Things are good. I was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Wichita Kansas. Fall is particularly nice in Duluth.

The electric skillet made chili just as well as it did in the 1960s.


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Anonymous said…
I don't know how I stumbled across your blog but I've been perusing it for a few days and all of a sudden I see the place where I proposed. The EXACT spot. The Riverwalk in Wichita, just east of the suspension bridge.
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Anonymous said…
I don't know how I found your blog bit I've been randomly reading it the last few days. I was looking at this particular post and the final image...that is EXACTLY where I proposed to my wife. It's also exactly where her and I's relationship started. Anyways, I live in Wichita, born and raised here but lived at Fort Stewart, Georgia for 4 years. I noticed that you spend some time in Georgia. Lately, I find myself missing it. Savannah, Brunswick and Jekyll Island, I have many fond memories of those places.
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