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
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Home: The Slow Fade
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
Survival
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
Around Atlanta: Georgia Renaissance Festival
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
Around Atlanta: Our Top 5 Adventures
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