Travel & Accessibility
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Traveling On My Own
Traveling On My Own In the beginning, the music played, I sang, the sun was shining and the excitement of breaking free of routine and visiting my daughter at college filled me with joy. I was on an adventure! I thought my journey would be relatively worry free and similar to an earlier visit to Champaign where my days were spent writing while Arielle was in class and my evenings were spent chatting with Arielle and catching up on movies. Oh, this trip was different! Very,very different! I’ve never been nervous to travel alone. It feels familiar. As early as first and second grade I remember riding my bike on daily explorations of the…
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Wisdom Wednesday: Adventure
Wisdom Wednesday: Adventure “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain I’m going on an adventure! It’s time for me to travel and to spend quality time with Arielle so I’m taking a little blog break. However, I will post pictures of my adventure on my KD Rausin page and my Mystic the novel page. I hope you’ll join me over there. This blog has grown thanks to you! Thank you…
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Buddy and the Dog Beach
Buddy and The Dog Beach Who knew going to the dog beach could be so much fun! Here’s our latest Buddy adventure! Where are we going? Is that the beach? Bring on the Gulf of Mexico! Um…I really don’t think I need to swim. Someone play the theme to Chariots of Fire–I’m running! Houston we have a problem. Sand and slobber don’t mix. Wait I have an idea! Much better! Yeah, I dig the beach. Next time I’ll bring some tunes.
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Thankful Moments with My Kids
Last Sunday I began my Thankful Moments with My Kids, posts. I bet you thought I forgot and was going to miss this week. Nope. I’ve been working on MYSTIC all day. Now, I get to relax and remember all the great times our family shared traveling together. We started going on adventures when the kids were two and six years old. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, we planned trips every summer. Then in 2007 we decided it was time for the kids to see different cultures. We flew to Europe. I have to say the highlight of that trip for me was Zermatt, Switzerland. The train ride to get there…
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Life’s a Beach… and Then You Fly!
May and June are all about celebrations. May is my month with my birthday falling close to Mother’s Day and June is all about Eric with his birthday near Father’s Day. However, we differ greatly on our expectations for celebrating. I like a nice quiet dinner at home and an ice cream cake dessert. Eric insists on an adventure. Last year we tried wind surfing on Eric’s birthday. This year we took a road trip to Orlando to see La Nouba. They have an excellent offer of dinner at The House of Blues and a show for $99.00. Dinner included an appetizer, main course and dessert for each person.Yes, four apps and four desserts for the Rausin family. I highly recommend the…
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Indoor Skydiving
They all stared at me. “Will you do it?” My family is used to me saying, “no way!” They all have the adventure seeking gene. I have the gene that prefers to keep my two feet safely on the ground and my stomach from feeling as though it’s shooting out my mouth. I’m perfectly happy in the most peaceful situations like sitting on a beach with some sangria and a book. This time I said, “sure.” I think their mouths hit the floor. It seemed a much better alternative to the jumping out of an airplane skydiving which Eric has done twice and Arielle and Kai are eager to try. I knew there…
