Live a wholehearted life and remember; you can find joy, even in the toughest of times – if you just keep your senses aware of the beauty that is all around you.
Category: Road Trips
New York to Washington State – One Year Later
I readily admit that I enjoy Facebook Memories. Looking back at where I was one, two, even eight years ago on a specific day reminds me of how far I have come. How fast life moves and how easy it is to forget where you were and as my Fifty-fifth birthday approaches rapidly, there is…
Looking back to Today
As much as we think life is linear, it is not. Life is a bunch of circles. Now if you make a perfect circle, you just keep going around and around on the same path, but some of us make more elliptical circles and we end up on different paths that occasionally cross old paths….
A look back to Larry’s Lobster Run – 2011
We arrived in Bangor after a long chilly day of riding to find out – There Were No Rooms Available – not ONE! It was already late and we were cold. The closest hotel with rooms available was about an hour away in Bar Harbor – where we were supposed to ride to the following day.
Wandering around Ballard WA
We turned around at the locks, paddled past the world’s most exclusive yacht club, (only one member), past the Purple Martin bird nests made from gourds and then up along the shores of Golden Gardens Park where I was planning to spend the day originally.
Newport Oregon 2019
I’d been to Newport twice before. The first time was back in 2013 when I began blogging under LifeWithLarry while traveling in a 1978 VW Bus…If you get a chance to stop in Newport, OR I highly recommend it. It is both a touristy ocean village and a working fishing village. Living here for a month, watching the fishing and sailboats come in and out of the harbor was wonderful.
A visit to RoozenGaarde – Mt. Vernon, WA – 2019
once I got north of Seattle, it was like I was in a whole other state. I was in the country. A short time later, I pulled into Roozengaerde Tulip Farm . I had barely walked through the gate when I was awe struck by all the tulips in bloom. It was the most magical feeling to be standing there among all these flowers in bloom.