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Welcome to Europe, Gypsie

May 10, 2024

By Cecilie Conrad

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Welcome to Europe, Gypsie

The first morning after seven months in Mexico and the USA, I woke up in my van somewhere on Montserrat Mountain. The word “gypsy” danced through my quiet mind, and I felt utterly at home, carried by Life’s Great Mystery and filled with the appetite for life that I happen to have in ample supply.

A few days later, we camped by the Mediterranean, and I wrote a morning piece for a book project while sitting on a wall overlooking the sea. This piece is a lovely opening …

Will it Ever be Enough?

Jan 3, 2024

By Cecilie Conrad

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When we arrived to the big house at Baja, we had to kick ourselves hard to remember how great this is - even when the temperatures are about 10 degrees Celcius colder than we aimed for, and the house is impossible to heat.

First Transit of the Year

Jan 2, 2024

By Cecilie Conrad

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We were excited about going to the next place. As always, of course, but this time, we would finally meet again with friends from the castle experience last year and our second Camino. Plus we were planning to live in the same place for six weeks. Right on the beach. Yay.

Everything worked out nicely, even though many feelings are in play at the moment, and we have to handle that, too (it is growth, and it is not always easy). Erik took the challenge of cooking whatever was left so we would all…

Evaluation Mood - a New Year State of Mind

Jan 1, 2024

By Cecilie Conrad

Do you also want to evaluate at the edge of the new year? I want the statistics: How many museums, how many cities, how many beach days, where did we go, how did it unfold? What do we want to change, and how can we do it? What is the better plan, based on the things we learned?

This kind of evaluation goes through my mind, while the new year unfolds in the celebration on the last night of the year and the humble beginning on the first day.

Transit from La Paz to Tijuana | Day 363 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 29, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Arriving in Tijuana. The most overwhelming thing was the wall. Oh, my good. I have to say it. It is crazy. Cra. Zy. Double metal fence construction over hills and around corners keeps the two countries separate.

A much needed pause from being tourists| Day 362 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 28, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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We canceled the plan to go out on the ocean to swim with the big fish because we are exhausted from being "the tourists with the dollars," paying and paying for everything we do - it is enough now; we need to be normal for a while.

Stuck in the desert | Day 361 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 27, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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We needed to buy gasoline halfway through our trip and arrived at a gas station that was out of electricity. Therefore, they could not pump the gasoline and, hence, not sell it to us. And they had no idea (of course) when the problem would be fixed.

Dolphins are whales | Day 360 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 26, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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It is very hard to take good pictures of dolphins, especially if you are at the same time trying just to enjoy the moment and save some hours in the afternoon, not wanting to delete photos all night.

Christmas Games: The Julømpiade is on! | Day 359 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 25, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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The Julømpiade is on! For those who do not speak Danish, this word is a mix of Christmas and The Olympics. A tradition we started last year to do something for Christmas as I dread the traditional expectations of the housewife and mom.

Merry Christmas from Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos | Day 358 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 24, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Isla Magdalena was our Christmas walk. We like to go for a walk at a beautiful place on the 24th of December. We walked over the dunes to the pacific where we found beautiful seashells, and wondered why so many skeletons of turtles were on the shore.

Almost done with my 365 challenge | Day 357 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 23, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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I have been asked if I am looking forward to completing my 365 challenge so I am off the hook of writing a story every day. It is a good question, and I have been pondering for a while as to whether I am going to continue my daily update.

A day in The mangroves | Day 356 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 22, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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“Where the Crawdads Sing” is a great novel; I greatly enjoyed it. Here, in Puerto Aldolfo Lopez Mateo, the landscape takes me right there, to the marshes where the novel takes place.

A long, dusty road | Day 355 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 21, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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A long, dusty road. We literally saw a Roadrunner. Like in the cartoons! It must be one of the highlights of the day. Such a great comment on the desert landscape we traveled through.

The Sea of Cortez | Day 354 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 20, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Just get out there. On the water. In the water. That is the recommendation from everyone we met living on boats for everyone else. And it is very true.
The first thing we met was a humpback whale and its calf. It was, of course, amazing, and we all felt if we see nothing more today, it is a success anyway.

Peaceful days, walking, talking and blue blue sky | Day 353 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 19, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Sometimes, these peaceful days, even with all the adventure, are hard to describe. It all seems a bit banal when jotting it down in my journal. But really, this is the life I want.

Oh the sunrises over La Ventana | Day 352 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 18, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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In La Ventana, it made a lot of sense to get up at five in the morning to enjoy the sunrise from pitch dark over extreme beauty to bright daylight. Every day.
In La Ventana, we took turns going down with a virus, fevers, and loss of voice.

Happy Days in La Ventana | Day 351 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 17, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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What does it mean to be happy? Often, we don’t stop to understand it while it is ongoing; we trot along and live, only to realize how much we had the moment we lost it.

Wild West Walk in La Ventana | Day 350 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 16, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Two hours of planning and negotiations of who was coming and who was not finally got us out walking. Not far, and not all of us, as some are down with some virus, but still, we wanted to get out there and do something other than just stayin in the beautiful house!

La Ventana: Welcome to Baja Sur | Day 349 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 15, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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Life is this. The moving around. The people we move for. Reaching out to the opportunities, taking what is, and appreciating all the big and little gifts of life. It seems obvious right now the right thing is to enjoy the fantastic nature around us and the people we get to share the experience with.

In transit again: Going to Baja Sur, California| Day 348 of my 2023 Journal

Dec 14, 2023

By Cecilie Conrad

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I scored eight out of ten on the travel score sheet of my son-in-law, as I had brought a knife in the packed lunch - the knife took my two last points. Everything else went so smoothly that it was hard to understand.

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Cancer-surviving psychologist, former single-parent; co-sleeping, yogi, gluten-free, primarily plant-eating; happily married, stay-at-home, organic barefooted hippie and mother of four, living in a bus, knitting teddy bears and learning languages, counseling and enjoying sunsets.

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