Charleston, Seabrook Island, Poplar Bluff, St Thomas (again), a helicopter excursion around the near and far islands of the Carribbean, Miami, Big Sky, Montana, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, back to San Francisco, Eureka, California, the Lost Coast of Northern California, Mendocino, back to San Francisco and within a foreseeable time, back to Tucson finally after being 15 months away from home base… this has been quite an expedition.

I last blogged in January of this year in Logan, Utah and somewhere between then and now, I have really been untethered more than I have ever been before. I have not traveled abroad this year, thus far. I have written, spoken at the IMN Conference in Miami Beach, written more marketing copy, ad copy, articles for internet, and traveled within the United States. This year, thus far, has been life-changing, as I learned what is felt like to live, basically, out of my suitcase for a very long time! What did being away so long teach me? First of all, it is expensive, second, the mail gets all screwed up, so you have to pay a lot of bills forward, third, it is disorganizing you have to become truly organized, learning the absolute need for one of the great inventions of all time, the Zip-Loc bag, fourth, as I have grown older and somewhat wiser this year, a need for a home base, where all your junk is in the same place. Even if you don't know where it all is exactly, you still know it is around here somewhere; an oddly reassuring feeling. I know I have other lessons I have learned, but those are the main four.

I am putting some images on the site of a few places that I really enjoyed. The Stanford Inn, Mendocino, the helicopter trip over St. Thomas, and the dazzling moonrise in San Francisco.

Tired, but happy, I am ready to return to the high Sonoran plateau of Tucson, where the air is easy to breathe, and lemons can still be picked from the trees through the winter. No Utah winters, anymore...