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This started as my travel log. (We've been traveling the USA from Seattle, WA since Labor Day '08.) My husband has a great website showing the highlights and his commentaries on the places we've been and the things we've done. (View via my profile home page.)

I found that while discovering the country, I was also finding myself. I am learning what to keep, and what to drop -- or chisel away. I don't mind sharing; maybe you will learn something from my lessons, too.

Then came Bigun, my Cocker-Beagle, my newest guru. He's got his own category in the Blog, and an album on my profile.

You are welcome to what I have, good and bad, and leave messages as you like, but please be kind. I, too, am still "in training."
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Kill Your Computer

Posted 10-30-2009 at 09:02 AM by LookinForMayberry (Travels Around My Head While Touring America)
This window to the world is taking way too much of my time, better spent on things that I enjoy more.

I was naive to think that I wanted to use this as a point of connection to others. I don't. It just sucks time out of my day, and leaves me dissatisfied.

Adios, websters, it's all yours!
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Five Months Old, Yesterday

Posted 10-27-2009 at 05:01 AM by LookinForMayberry (Travels Around My Head While Touring America)
My Bigun turned five months, yesterday. At day break we walked over the Eads Bridge, again, and explored downtown St. Louis. It started raining soon after we left the RV, but he pressed on, questioning my sanity with only an occasional glance, as if to make sure I noticed.

Across Locust from the Main Library we found a small dog park with a man and his dog -- a female about twice Bigun's size, playing ball. I asked if we might join them and he agreed, but the dogs had only a brief...
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The Eternal Now -- NOW What??!

Posted 10-24-2009 at 09:09 AM by LookinForMayberry (Travels Around My Head While Touring America)
We spent some time listening to Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" and have completed only the first two chapters. It's been an amazing help to me in Staying Present.

The thing is, now that I am HERE, what? It occurs to me that I've been soooooo hooked into my ego and emotional waves that I've lost my "taste" for everyday life. I've never thought of myself of a "drama queen" but perhaps there is an element of that, in here.

Years ago,...
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Dog's Day in the Sun

Posted 10-19-2009 at 10:19 AM by LookinForMayberry (Travels Around My Head While Touring America)
Keeping up with Bigun's exercise needs -- now up to five miles a day, is wearing on these 53 year old knees. We've tried to find him a dog park, and finally succeeded yesterday in Kansas City.

The dog park was a bust. An aggressive boxer that started five fights with smaller dogs in the half hour we were there put us off, and seemed to raise the assertiveness of the other dogs in the park. (Isn't there so often one that has to ruin things?)

Anyway, we took him back to the...
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Amelia's Ray of Light

Posted 10-18-2009 at 07:49 AM by LookinForMayberry (Travels Around My Head While Touring America)
DH, Bigun and I recently visited Atchison, KS. It was a return trip for me, having first gone in '97 to gather information for a novel I'd tried (and failed) to write. I was captured by it, and Amelia, then and again. It's a great small town that hides its treasures from casual view. One must get out and walk its streets to be touched by it.

Though the town displays its love of Amelia Earhart, as her birthplace, it has many gifts aside from her lingering presence. It's a place worth...
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