It was the summer of 1982 and all I wanted to do was enjoy my summer, but instead, I’d have to ‘go to school’. Math and Science would be taught to me by my immediate neighbor who by chance was a NY Certified teacher and English would be taught to me by a woman in town who was also certified in NY.
Author: Larry Jensen
Larry Jensen, Founder of Wonder of Wander. A vagabond traveler, handyman
The Alternative Lifestyle
The headlines on all these stories are always the same: Man Quits Job, Couple Quits Job, Woman Quits Job. Every headline is the same in one regard… they quit their job, but that isn’t true.
Caution…Rough Road Ahead.
With this past Sundays unusually early Hard Freeze and Snow Fall (temps were sub freezing for 24 hours) we lost our Peak Fall Foliage. For most this means some lost photo opportunities while for others it simply means an end to another season. This year it means so much more to me and its going…
Contrast! Some of us crave it, all of us need it.
con·trast noun ˈkänˌtrast/ 1. the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association. Think about your life for a minute. I’m betting you can probably identify at least a dozen objects or situations of contrast. Be it an old house with a modern kitchen, going to a mundane…
The Best places to visit are in the Map Fold
I remember fondly, my Dad driving the family from New York to Florida and back every summer. Me, I’d be holding the large atlas in my hands trying to figure out where we were, what was coming up, where the next hotel or restaurants might be and any interesting alternate routes around big cities.
One simple step to become rich!
Each and everyone of us is born with the commodity of time. None of us know how much or how little we have until it’s too late to matter, yet time is what so many of us waste.
Travel is Fatal to Prejudice – Mark Twain
Do you stay on the interstate? Eat in the same restaurants? Eat the same food? Stay in the same hotels? Visit the same places? What happens when you break down? Are you scared, upset or do you take the opportunity to discover someplace you had not planned on stopping? Every town in this country and others has a history – a beginning?
Ride the Catskills
Lexie has loved to ride since the first time I put her on a bike at 3 yrs old and there is no better way to celebrate than to do what she loves to do. So I took Lexie, her Mommy Arlene and I we went riding through the Catskills of New York. Our destination was simple. I wanted to get a picture at the Big Indian sign
My 50th Birthday – a Half Century on Planet Earth
December 13, 2015 50 years ago yesterday (December 12th, 1964) I entered this big blue marble . 50 [pe2-image src=”http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vLQzcoSXl7g/VK8szQ7l1pI/AAAAAAAAGDM/zsqKl06ULc4/s144-c-o/baby.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/108131301217387227436/Birthday#6102145279340172946″ caption=”” type=”image” alt=”baby.jpg” pe2_single_image_size=”w200″ pe2_large_limit=”false” pe2_img_align=”right” ] years of experiencing Life. What a ride its been. My earliest memories include playing in the back yard with my sister making mud pies. I recall we got hosed off…
How to chose the right Kayak
The thing to remember with kayaks is that there are as many styles as there are uses. No one kayak will do it all so if you plan to kayak in every environment (lakes, rivers, large rivers, ocean) you will be getting a few kayaks yourself.
