Tag: #pleasureway
What links all these magnificent environments I’ve been blessed to visit? The common thread? Birds. Their song, while vocally unique to their breed, are joyous, unsolicited and a call to all to stop what we’re doing and listen. If you do, for more than… Continue Reading “Eclipse”
Category: #gmashavingfun, #grandparents, #hope, #lifeizgood, coastal camping, unconditional loveTags: #cachumalake, #California, #eclipse, #faith, #findinggod, #findinghope, #grandmascamping, #Nature, #peace, #pleasureway, #santabarbaraparks, #solowomencamping, astronomy, love, nasa, solar-eclipse, sun
Posted on March 15, 2024
by JANET L BARKER
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The sun warms my shoulders as the ocean re-charges my gaze as the gregarious Snow White singing birds kerchief my ears as teeming black tea stimulates my soft-focus high school yearbook portrait ala 1970s brain. Adjust the lens and it becomes clear, sharp, bursting… Continue Reading “Lucky Enough”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #50threunion, #bestfriends, #cambria, #camping, #faith, #findinghope, #god, #godslove, #grandmashavingfun, #hope, #inspiration, #peace, #pleasureway, #retiredteacher, #ruhs, #solowomentraveling, #thebeach, #theocean, #vanlife, @grateful, @retirement, jesus, life, love
Home, not really. South Bay, not really. Schedule, not really. Ambition, not really. Stress, not really. Anger, frustration, blame, regrets, not really. I’m here, sitting on a camp chair overlooking the blustery sea in my sister and cousin’s unfinished Palos Verdes Estates home, a… Continue Reading “Really, not really”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #birthday, #grandma, #gratitude, #growingold, #home, #hope, #lifeizgood, #palosverdesestates, #pleasureway, #purpose, #rvlifestyle, #solowomen, #solowomencamping, #southbay, #thenextchapter, #travel, #travelingwithgrandma, #travellinggrandma, #whatsitallabout, #wisdom, @retirement, celebrations, comingtopeace, fallinginlove, family, gettingolder, grandparenting, momsok, traveling-grandma
Posted on October 21, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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This is the juicy part. The part I crave. My Tuolumne Meadows in Eastern Yosemite that happens after the first five days. Right now, it’s the first four days here on the outskirts of Sedona, camping in the same place that will be tomorrow’s first five days. Let… Continue Reading “Sit down and stay awhile”
Category: #education, #gmashavingfun, #grandparents, #hope, #lifeizgoodTags: #arizona, #camping, #fall, #l, #peace, #pleasureway, #sedona, #solocamping, #solowomencamping
Posted on October 20, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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This is not the Sedona I remember from 27 years ago when my cousin Bevie and I flew here to celebrate my milestone 40th birthday. It was my first Destination Birthday, a splurge; I felt called to be in a place I’d never been before,… Continue Reading “It all makes sense”
Category: #education, #gmashavingfun, #grandparents, #hope, #lifeizgood, @retirementTags: #camping, #campinggrandma, #newfriends, #openheart, #openmind, #pleasureway, #sedona, #solocamping, #UFOs
Posted on October 16, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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Life on the Road, Installment 9 America, she be beautiful. America, she be kind. America, she can cook up some bodacious Southwest foods. America, it’s been good gettn’ to know you. America, our time together is helping me understand myself. What I like, don’t like,… Continue Reading “The UnKnotting Process”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #eclipse, #findingpeace, #harvesthost, #hope, #hummingdesertalpacafarm, #loveeverymoment, #newmexico, #pleasureway, #solograndmatraveling, #solowomencamping, #vanlife, @retirement, love
Posted on October 13, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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Week 5 of The Great Jan Z Solo Transformation Tour has me reverently writing in the veil of the setting sun here in Taos, New Mexico where I’ve lived for the last three nights at a pretty cool little RV park, Taos Valley RV. I never ever thought… Continue Reading “Southwest Sojourn”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #blessings, #findingpeace, #grandmascamping, #gratitude, #hope, #Ilovetaos, #newmexico, #pleasureway, #retirement, #solocamping, #taos, #taospueblo, #travelingsolo
Posted on October 5, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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Feeling at home when you’re not at home and you don’t have a home and you’re not sure you’re ever going to have a home “home”, at least for now and the unforeseen future, is, well, like a butterfly that glides from flower to… Continue Reading “The Seen and Unseen Explained”
Posted on October 2, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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Wild and green, Weaving and rolling, Sheltered and exposed to the Pacific Ocean’s girth and temper, Dinosaurs and explorers, Con men and conservationists, Casinos, small towns, and a dwindling Native presence. A sorcery, a teacher, a non-judgmental priest listening to confession, Felled forests, tree… Continue Reading “A Very Bad Ode to the Oregon Coast”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #findingpeace, #jumpandtheparachutewillappear, #justdoit, #lifeizgood, #nosecondchances, #oregon, #oregoncoast, #pleasureway, #rain, #retiredteacher, #solotraveler, #travelinggrandma, #travelinggranny, @retirement
Posted on October 2, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
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Now I’m a real nomad. It’s a new season. I’m in a new place. It’s been raining for the last five days and will continue to do so for the duration I’m camping along Coastal Oregon. This week’s deluge is unusual for September, local weather forecasters report. All… Continue Reading “When it rains, and rains, and rains and …”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #fall, #fallcamping, #findingbliss, #iloveoregon, #newadventures, #nomad, #oregon, #oregoncoast, #pleasureway, #solocamping, #travelinggranny, love