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A Tale of FrankenTravel

June 12, 2018 By Val Weston

There are lots of different ways to get your travel on, are there not? Earlier this year, I embraced the coddiwomple: purposeful yet unstructured travel. I've always liked that concept … [Read more...] about A Tale of FrankenTravel

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlanta, georgia, loft, north carolina, roswell, slow travel, tennessee

Home: The Slow Fade

May 31, 2018 By Val Weston 4 Comments

Endings and beginnings are intimately intertwined, are they not? Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Seneca the Younger In the case of my life in Georgia, the ending was … [Read more...] about Home: The Slow Fade

Filed Under: Abode, Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlanta, changes, georgia, loft, nevada, roswell

Survival

January 31, 2014 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

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Last week when I talked about safety in the backcountry, I had no idea I'd be struggling to find safety in my own city just a few days later. I was one of the millions caught stupidly unprepared for a … [Read more...] about Survival

Filed Under: Life, Outdoors Tagged With: atlanta, experiential education, first aid, georgia, snow, snowpocalypse, training

Around Atlanta: Georgia Renaissance Festival

March 27, 2013 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

So have you been wondering what Camp Granola does for fun when we're not out exploring on some crazy cross-country roadtrip? Well, we do search out urban experiential education at museums and such … [Read more...] about Around Atlanta: Georgia Renaissance Festival

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlanta, experiential education, fantasy, georgia

Around Atlanta: Our Top 5 Adventures

August 23, 2012 By Val Weston 5 Comments

Like I mentioned in this week's Real Talk on experiential education, we here at Val in Real Life are do-ers. We like to get out and get our hands on things. While we like to keep a good bit of variety … [Read more...] about Around Atlanta: Our Top 5 Adventures

Filed Under: Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlanta, chattahoochee nature center, experiential education, georgia, gwinnett environmental and heritage center, stone mountain

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Writing this month's newsletter I realized how much I write about weather. I suppose I should branch out a bit but, then again, when you like to do stuff outside, you world pretty much revolves around weather. How's that for a Catch 22? Or should we call it a Catch '23 with as insane as the weather has been so far this year? 😁
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Nabbed my first smiley in ages over the weekend. This one led to a couple more in the area breaking a slump of (*checks stats*) — 494 days. 😬 Oopsies!

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