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    Psychedelic Science 2023

    (Road) Tripping to a Psychedelic Conference

    July 9, 2023 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We completed a truly historic road trip in June, 2023. We traveled from our little hilltop in eastern Washington to Denver, to the largest, most comprehensive, and truly eclectic psychedelic conference, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit working to raise awareness and understanding of psychedelic

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    Pulaski Tunnel Trail

    The Blog is Back … to a Degree: Wallace, ID

    October 2, 2022 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Well, I guess you could say we’ve been pretty busy the last year and a half — finishing the house construction, managing our forestland, and working in various jobs and volunteering. No excuse, but we really had no time for the blog. We feel a little badly, as we have

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    Myrtle Beach, SC

    Stop 117: Scrambling Around South Carolina

    December 16, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    From the Wilmington area of North Carolina, we crossed into South Carolina and landed in Myrtle Beach… just in time for Jenny’s birthday. South Carolina, the Palmetto State, is the 42nd state we have visited on this massive adventure. It officially separated from North Carolina in 1729, and in 1788,

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    Gettysburg National Historic Park

    Stop 113: History Lessons at Valley Forge and Gettysburg

    November 18, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We made a quick dash back to Pennsylvania so that we could visit two historic sites — one related to the Revolutionary War and the other to the Civil War… settling in at a very small, but interesting campground in York. We started this adventure in Valley Forge, located about

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    Hudson Valley Sunset

    Stop 111: Dropping into the Hudson Valley and Delaware Water Gap

    November 4, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    As we closed in on our week-long visit to New Jersey and New York City, we decided to veer west from our last location in Connecticut and spend a week in nature in the Hudson Valley region of New York and the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania. Ironically, our first

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    Wabash Cannonball Trail

    Stop 99: Oh…O-H-I-O… the Last Stop in the Midwest

    August 19, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    O-H-I-O, the 28th state we have visited on our adventures across the U.S. The state gets its name from the Ohio River (a 981-mile river; the largest tributary to the Mississippi River by volume) whose name originated with an interpretation of the Seneca Indian word ohiːyo’, meaning “great river.” Ohio

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    Pictured Rock National Lakeshore

    Stop 96: Moving Through Michigan

    July 27, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We left Wisconsin and headed into Michigan — state #25 — via the Upper Peninsula, or U.P. as most folks call it… arriving in the Munising area for yet another look at Lake Superior, this time on the southern shores, which offer stunning sandstone cliffs, sand dunes, and waterfalls —

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    Iowa cornfields

    Stop 92: Surprising Finds in the Hawkeye State

    May 31, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We hit Iowa (state #22 on our travel across the U.S.) almost immediately after leaving Nebraska City, Nebraska, as we crossed the Missouri River into a sea of flooded fields and farmland. In fact, the roads had just been partially reopened (after repairs from flooding); even the interstate was affected.

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    Arbor Day Farm

    Stop 91: Visiting the Birthplace of Arbor Day

    May 28, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    On our way through more of the Midwest, leaving Kansas on our way to Iowa, we had to make a several day stop in Nebraska City, home of Arbor Day Farm and the Arbor Day Foundation… which Ran has supported for decades, and which, as tree-lovers, we both had to

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    Rocky Falls, Missouri

    Stop 80: Meandering Around Missouri

    April 1, 2019 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We left Arkansas, but not the Ozarks, as we traveled into southern Missouri, state #18 on this 48-state adventure. Known as the “Show Me State,” Missouri is known for its grassy plains to the north and the forests of the Ozarks to the south. We have been amazed to see

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