Luggage and Literature

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - St. Augustine

Friday Five 10-6-2017

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Kaaboo
Jamie and I goofing around at Kaaboo Del Mar

This is the thirty-second installment in my weekly series, called the Friday Five. In this series, I’ll tell you about five random things that I love, whether they be books, travel, music, movies…or whatever. So without further ado, 10-6-2017’s Friday Five!

1–Awesome Mix Vol. 2. The soundtrack to the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie is well, awesome! I’ve been listening to it on repeat in my car. And the movie is super entertaining too. So check out both of them!

2–Ongoing History of New Music. In other ‘what I’ve been listening to lately news’ is this podcast by Alan Cross. If you’re a rock and roll history buff, you’ll probably like it too.

3–Lightning around Irma. So of course, hurricanes are not something that I love. But this satellite footage of lightning in the storm is beautiful to watch.

4–Badlands. Amanda at Dangerous Business Travel Blog took a road trip around the US, and made a stop in the Badlands, which I loved visiting. You can read more here.

5–Doing work that matters. This post from Anne at Modern Mrs. Darcy hit for me this week. I just love how she phrased it–“But then, sometimes, you turn the corner, and see all that work mattered, it got you someplace, even though you felt it was a waste, even though you couldn’t see it at the time.” Beautiful, true words.

Friday Five 10-14-2016

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Bob Dylan Concert
Mike and Me at the Bob Dylan concert in Lincoln in the summer of 2016.

This is the eighteenth installment in my weekly series, called the Friday Five. In this series, I’ll tell you about five random things that I love, whether they be books, travel, music, movies…or whatever. So without further ado, 10-14-2016’s Friday Five!

1–Dry Suit Scuba Certification. I conquered a couple of fears in the last week…I got my dry suit certification for Scuba Diving with Heartland Scuba and SDI, and I dove in Sandy Channel. It was a big step for me. You can see the graduation photo here.

2–The Northern Lights. I really, really want to see the northern lights. This week, I was especially inspired by a couple of posts at Atlas Obscura and A Dangerous Business Travel Blog about the Northern Lights. This is definitely on my bucket list!

3–Scuba videos. Our friend Ron Johns shot a great video in Cozumel while diving. You can check it out here.

4–Mars. I read this post on what happens if someone dies on Mars. It reminded me quite a lot of the book (and movie) The Martian (which I wrote about in my monthly reading recaps here). Fascinating stuff.

5–Bob Dylan. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I love his music, and certainly believe that he’s deserving of this award for those song lyrics.  You can read more here, or listen to some of his greatest music here.

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