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Adventures in Eating in Portugal Imagine you have just arrived in Portugal after flying all the way from the United States. When you arrive, I start walking you all over a new city to keep you from falling asleep, promising that if you just make it to dinner, you’re going to be well on your …
Meet Poppy, The Black Lab Who Is Saving My Life This Winter November started for me with a bit of a wobble. A low spot, if you will. I was finding it hard to get out for a walk. Honestly, I was finding it hard to get out of bed. I belong to a …
Meet Me Under the Trees to Rest I am a total sucker for a big tree-lined pedestrian promenade. Whoever first had the idea to plant two gorgeous rows of trees to create a shaded walkway was a genius, as well as a visionary, because giant trees take a long time to grow. It’s like having …
Local Walks: Swineford Kelston Circular One night while I was on the Camino, I was talking on the phone to Simon, and he said, Hey Dad and I went on a walk today that you would love. Music to my ears! Tell me more. I replied. He told me that the scenery was “really nice,” …
Wisteria and Sunshine Wisteria and Tuscany just go together for me. Maybe it’s because I usually seem to visit Italy in the springtime, so many of my memories there are draped in the violet boughs. I love wisteria anywhere though, and I seek out its fragrant blossoms wherever it grows: behind the church in Arkansas, …
MINI WALKING STORIES Mini Walking Stories is a project I’m doing this month to catalog what has been an AMAZING year of walking. Every day during December, I’m going to choose one photo and invite you to come along with me for a few minutes on one of the walks I took in 2022. Read …
MINI WALKING STORIES Mini Walking Stories is a project I’m doing this month to catalog what has been an AMAZING year of walking. Every day during December, I’m going to choose one photo and invite you to come along with me for a few minutes on one of the walks I took in 2022. Read …
MINI WALKING STORIES Mini Walking Stories is a project I’m doing this month to catalog what has been an AMAZING year of walking. Every day during December, I’m going to choose one photo and invite you to come along with me for a few minutes on one of the walks I took in 2022. A …
The Cotswold Way 110 Miles from Chipping Campden to Bath: Day 3 Cleeve Hill to Birdlip (16 miles) The thing is…I don’t mind walking 10+ miles in one go. I do it often at home, even once or twice a month. But the challenge of a long walk is doing 10-15 miles day after day. …
The Cotswold Way 110 Miles from Chipping Campden to Bath: Day 2 Stanton to Cleeve Hill (15 miles) After eating the cereal and yogurts left for us in our darling kitchen, we set out early. We walked out of adorable Stanton and into even more adorable Church Stanway. After passing several cottages covered in wisteria, …
A Wee Walking Update: 2022 has already been an amazing year of walking! In addition to the gorgeous walks we do around here on the weekends, I have walked The Cotswold Way in England and The Portuguese Camino in Portugal and Spain! And the year of walking is not over yet. Next week we are …
We have spent a couple of our last two big walking days in an area I had never before heard of. The Mendip Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. (The AONB designation is the British equivalent of protected natural area.) When you head south from Bristol you will soon hit the Mendip Hills, which are actually gorgeous.
A Hike from Windrush to Great Barrington and Sherborne and back again to Windrush. Another beautiful loop walk in the Cotswolds! As you might imagine, we went back to the Cotswolds for more hiking just as soon as possible. This time, we hiked out of a tiny little village called Windrush. We parked along a …
Castle Combe Circular Walk Our First Walk In The Cotswolds!! As we walked from the car park into Castle Combe early on a Saturday morning, I turned to Taido and said: This is the exact moment I have been anticipating since we decided we were moving back to England. I’ve been stalking photos of …
Every time we move, it takes me a minute to find my walk. My every day walk. Last year it was walking the campus of Augustana College. We moved a few miles away from the college in August, and I tried out several neighborhood walks. Sometime in October, I found Chippiannock Cemetery, and since then, I …
Walking in the Snow The Answer To “The Questions That Have Assailed Us All Day” Yesterday I woke up to a world covered in snow. I had gone to bed with a heaviness that is all too familiar. I am forever grateful that mercies are new every morning. And this snow that had come down …
Longer Walks For Seeking The Sacred Over the last few weeks, I have been going for longer and longer walks. Four times a week, I’m crossing the five mile mark, which is long for me friends. It’s partly because I am training for a long walk (Yes, I have bravely put something on the calendar …
The Same Walk Every Day We’re moving today, so it seems like a good time to say thank you to the walk I’ve taken almost every day in the year that we’ve lived here. Since we move around quite a bit, I have come to really value the ability to take the same walk every …
Walking While Sheltering: Changing Plans and Shifting Perspective I was meant to be flying home from Italy today after a week of walking in Umbria and a week of retreating in Tuscany. It’s strange how far away that feels as a possibility now. I do believe I will return to Italy one day, but …
Snapshots of Walking in Winter in Illinois + Musings From My Wanderings Several years ago I wrote the following Richard Rohr quote on an index card and hung it up in the kitchen of the apartment we were renting. In order to live your soul into the world, you must continually loosen your beliefs about …