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Wandering Connections LLC!

The world is full of amazing places and interesting people. Join me as I explore a few. Travel comes in many flavors, each offering different insights into the lives and cultures of people with whom we share this planet. Short moments of engagement bring sparks of connection which lead to understanding and caring and a bit of joy, if we are lucky.

In this website, there is a trip tracker page where I let you know what I am doing and what time it is in whatever location I happen to be in. Hidden in the contact me tab (because I don’t know where else to put it) is a collection of paintings. Lastly, this website is home to my blog, Next Chapter Travels, where I post short stories about my adventures and reflections. 

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Next Chapter Travels

Travel bug Looking back at this first big year of travel, I remember how alive and excited I was to explore Europe. An interviewer recently asked my what made me think I could paint a mural on the side of a farmhouse, working 30 feet up a wall on scaffolding......

It was March 2023. After years of perusing Workaway listings and dreaming of spending a month in a foreign country, the time had come to spread my wings and take the leap. I had quit my job in the pump industry and thought I was retiring. It turned out that.....

The Polar Steps app showed me that I was away from home 256 days in 2024. Just reading that number caused me to stop and think about my life a little. Was I really traveling that much? I was. I had spent three months in South Africa, 3 weeks on.....