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Skills Entropy

October 2, 2018 By Val Weston 2 Comments

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I pulled into the campsite completely stoked. We'd scored a fabulous site on a busy holiday weekend. It was my first camping trip with George in years. In fact, it was our first-ever camping trip with … [Read more...] about Skills Entropy

Filed Under: Outdoors Tagged With: camping, entropy, obstacles, paddling, skills

Removing Obstacles

August 21, 2018 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

Call me Sisyphus. Damn it if I haven't found myself at the bottom of the same hill I was trying to push my personal boulder up five years ago. Here I stand again, staring up at the huge task … [Read more...] about Removing Obstacles

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: adventure, gear, home, obstacles

Working Past Fear

March 23, 2016 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

News flash. I'm not fearless. I'm often told I am and it makes me laugh. I think "Are you kidding me?!?" Of course I have fear. Lots of it. The well-meaning commenters see it as a … [Read more...] about Working Past Fear

Filed Under: Life, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: adventure travel, brene brown, fear, obstacles, overland expo, solo, ted simon

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