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Thursday, March 30, 2017

#tbt Spring Break: Around the US in 34 Days #MBsociallydriven

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Quick: 5 images that sum up a circumnavigation of the US. Is that even possible?

I chose the four EDGE corners of the contiguous 48 states.

On 3/26/2014, I embarked on a road trip art project to drive around the perimeter of the US. I planned to document it by time-lapse captures out the passenger side. [Which I did, but the footage makes me nauseous, and I still can't deal with it]. There were 34 days of actual driving the route, and an additional 28 days of social detours, including my 40th high school reunion:

We are all almost 60 in 2014, and we are looking good!

Along the way, I met up with some blogging friends:

Meet my good friend Blueberry Pie!
This was the evidence of my meet-up with Connie at Pannikin Coffee & Tea in Encinitas, CA.
She wrote about it better than I ever did!

Patti is represented by a sunset of her home town on the Florida coast.
Again, Patti said it better!

With Joyatri at Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge, MA.
Joyatri's writeup.
Linking up with Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

Here I am after meeting up with Citizen Rosebud.
I'm wearing a purple scarf that she gave me and I'm posing with Seattle lilacs
(which I had been pursuing since the stay with my mom back in early May -- her's hadn't bloomed yet).
I'm sure Bella wrote about the meet-up, but I can't find it.

You can see my adventures in driving on my On the Edge blog (because why have one blog when you can have seven?)

In 2019, I'll have another school reunion to drive to.
(My high school is Emma Willard, in Troy, NY, a private girls' prep school).
This time, I plan to circumnavigate Canada (plus Alaska)!

(Just roughly plotted this. OMG, what am I thinking!!!!)

Do you take a vacation to see places or people or a combination of the two?
Link and tell!

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Downtown with Peggy Noland

Ruth and I rendezvoused at BOLD LA in downtown LA to attend a Savoir Collab featuring the creative force Peggy Noland.

We were a photographers' delight, but I have yet to see any images of us.
Isn't Ruth's hat AMAZING?

Savoir Collab founders Tamalin Srisook and Marta Stattmiller, flanking
moderator Harmonie of Pop Your Shop and Peggy Noland.
Peggy is wearing one of her own creations.

Harmonie's discussion with Peggy was fascinating. Peggy started out in Kansas City, MO with the storefront Peggy Noland. She has made a second home in LA and has opened the shop, Wacky Wacko, in Echo Park.
Ruth and I will be making a field trip there soon! It's located at 1361 Sunset Blvd.

I sketched the event:

The audience was a fun, eclectic bunch:

Savoir Collab's mission [pulled from their website]:

Starting this year, we will be hosting monthly events centered around empowering women through sharing our intentions, mindfulness leadership, health & wellness, stand up & speak, and harnessing the beauty of collaboration. In 2017, now more than ever, it is important for us to come together and elevate our voices. These events will be intimate, invite only gatherings of female professionals, trailblazers, and influencers in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles and interested? Subscribe HERE for their email list.

Linking up with Patti's Visible Monday and Shelbee's Spread the Kindness

Thursday, March 23, 2017

#tbt Spring Break: Fripp Island, SC #MBsociallydriven

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My mom takes an ultimate Spring Break -- every January, she leaves the "Lake Effect" Snow Belt of central upstate NY and "snowbirds" on Fripp Island, South Carolina until Easter-time.

-- You know it's coming... my 9 second #MBsociallydriven slide show:

Want to create your own mini slide show? It's made from geotagged Instagram images, US locations.

Click on THIS LINK while on your smart device, enter your zip code, choose five images from Instagram, et voila.

I've had the pleasure of visiting Fripp a couple of times. Mom has a villa with beautiful wide sandy beach almost directly out her back door. Oh how I yearn to live with a view of the ocean!