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Category: Adventure

The Bruce Trail: Teacher for the Times

By lizjansen Posted on December 18, 2020 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Liz's Stories 6 Comments

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The Bruce Trail has become my teacher for the times we’re living! I spot the sign with white blazes marking an access point where I’ll continue my Bruce Trail trek. Peace envelopes …

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Taking the Backward Step to Move Forward in 2020

By lizjansen Posted on January 24, 2020 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Personal Growth, Power of Story 18 Comments
Taking the Backward Step to Move Forward in 2020

When someone calls our name, we turn in their direction. We look back, not ahead to see who’s calling and what they want. The same thing applies to an inner calling, that yearning that doesn’t go away. Looking ahead for …

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Time to Hibernate: Home and Taking a Break

By lizjansen Posted on October 18, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 12 Comments
Time to Hibernate: Home and Taking a Break

For the past four nights I’ve slept in my own bed, yet keep waking up wondering where I am. It’s odd this happens now, but never during the past eleven weeks of camping, staying with friends, and some motelling! In …

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The Stories We Carry: Unlocking and Liberating The Message

By lizjansen Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Ancestors, Culture, Personal Growth 4 Comments

One of the greatest joys during this Long Road Home moto-book tour has come not from sharing my story, but from listening to the stories of others. We’ve all got them and we share universal themes. They’re passed down through …

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Reality of the Road: The Landscape of Travel

By lizjansen Posted on August 10, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 2 Comments
Reality of the Road: The Landscape of Travel

Even I get caught up in the romantic notion of riding a motorcycle across the open landscape under sunny blue skies with the wind in my face. The reality of the road brings me back to earth. Every time. Last …

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Finding Strength and Serenity on Gravel Roads

By lizjansen Posted on July 26, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Personal Growth 4 Comments
Finding Strength and Serenity on Gravel Roads

My mission for the day was to get through it without backing down or crashing. It was a tall order but resolve under the guidance of an expert instructor won out. I didn’t expect the strength and serenity that came …

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Preparing for Travel: Choose What to Bring Along

By lizjansen Posted on July 19, 2019 Posted in Adventure 6 Comments
Preparing for Travel: Choose What to Bring Along

All going as planned, two weeks from today I’ll be riding through northern Michigan on Day Two of the Long Road Home moto-book tour. The next six days of riding and camping will take me across the northern states and …

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Celebrate Life and Party Like It’s 1999!

By lizjansen Posted on May 24, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Personal Growth 4 Comments

I’m not a party animal but Prince’s Party Like It’s 1999 keeps playing through my mind. Why now? Written in 1982 it impelled listeners to let go and revel because why not? The world was ending in 2000. There were …

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Porcupine Wisdom and Speeding Through Life

By lizjansen Posted on May 17, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Liz's Stories 14 Comments
Porcupine Wisdom and Speeding Through Life

The irony of last week’s blog title, Caught Speeding, only dawned on me yesterday. It’s not the first time I’ve been caught this year. But it was an unexpected encounter with porcupine wisdom that made the lesson stick. In January, …

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Dancing on the Edge of Comfort—Without Crashing

By lizjansen Posted on May 3, 2019 Posted in Adventure 4 Comments Tagged with , motorcycle travelpersonal growth
Dancing on the Edge of Comfort—Without Crashing

Sunshine, blue skies, and mid-70s-breezes embraced me as I set off for home from the Horizons Unlimited Travellers meeting in Virginia last Sunday. Perfect riding weather belied that I’d be dancing on the edge of comfort before long. I’d taken …

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