Welcome to the Wandering Ex-Housewife’s Transformation Travel Blog!
TRAVEL THERAPY #4: Searching For My Tribe
TRAVEL THERAPY #4: Searching For My Tribe In this fourth Travel Therapy session, I faced a harsh truth after wandering in the California Redwoods and Sequoia National Forest — I really needed to start searching for my tribe. "Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim." NORA EPHRON Since returning from our behemoth summer road [...]
CALIFORNIA: Sequoia National Forest Camping
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST CAMPING: PART 2 — The Behemoth Summer Road Trip Part 1 of our behemoth summer road trip was spent under behemoth trees in the California Redwoods. After soaking up nature at its best, we headed south to meet up with friends, meadows, caves and more behemoth trees on a Sequoia National Forest Camping trip. Day 8—Healdsburg & Novato Today was a [...]
CALIFORNIA: A California Redwoods Camping Family Trip
A California Redwoods Camping Trip to Remember Our Summer 2006 family vacation for some California Redwoods camping and exploring Sequoia National Forest definitely had a theme—BEHEMOTH. Our behemoth Yukon guzzled behemoth quantities of gas while pulling our behemoth 30' home-on-wheels across a behemoth stretch of asphalt in search of behemoth trees. The travel trailer setup was a compromise between the my hunger for nature and my staunchly indoorsy family. On [...]
TRAVEL THERAPY #3: Passion is Not a Dirty Word
TRAVEL THERAPY #3: Passion is Not a Dirty Word In this third Travel Therapy session, I mull over my taste of passion after wandering for a couple of weeks in the Belize Rainforest and Reef and the Costa Rica Rainforest. My conclusion? Passion is NOT a dirty word! "...above all, my beautiful, peculiar, translucent child - be passionate. It matters not what you're passionate [...]
COSTA RICA: An Eco-Adventure in the Costa Rica Rainforest
An Eco-Adventure in the Costa Rica Rainforest The Costa Rica rainforest was the second half of an adventurous two-country wander in celebration of my 15th wedding anniversary. As we traveled to the third place recommended by 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, I wondered—would Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula be able to live up to our unforgettable experience in the Belize Rainforest and Ambergris Caye? [...]
BELIZE: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem on Ambergris Caye
BELIZE: Ambergris Caye No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem After several days at Chan Chich Lodge in the Belize rainforest, we wandered to Ambergris Caye. This was the beginning of a love affair with Belize that is still going strong to this day. San Pedro Town The day I had been dreading finally arrived. The next hopper flight from Gallon Jug Airstrip to [...]