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🦜 A Weekend of Parks pt. 1 No Alligators Please

Saturday October 14 & Sunday the 15th. One national Park, seven state parks, two times leaving due to alligators, one turn around due to treacherous cliff, one table of skulls, one night sleeping on a wooden bunk bed, three entrance bracelets and hundreds of butterflies. It started at 3am with a plan to drive five Continue reading
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Inks Lake Thank You Card

After my visit to Inks Lake State Park I wanted to send a thank you note to the rangers at this location for the delightful day. I rarely show the back of these postcards, but this is a sample what they look like after I’ve fancied them up. Remus says “Hi.” Continue reading
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🍕Weekend Without a Partner

Hello from Austin Texas on the morning of October 9th. My partner is officially in India for the next few weeks and so I am adventuring solo. One idea I have been debating is to travel to random points of interest.I did decide to try this on my Sunday adventure, but this did not end Continue reading
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April Fools! 1960s Style

Saturday October 7th 8:53 am 62° F (17°C) Austin, Texas First day at home alone for the next four weeks and I have officially begun the Rubik’s jigsaw puzzle. I haven’t fully decoded the pattern yet, but I have completed about 10% of the puzzle so far. I’m still in the process of sorting the Continue reading
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There IS an Aisle 35W at Target! 😲😲😲🎯

October 6th, 2023. Austin, Texas 9:37 am. ☀️ 72° F (22° C) Last night I was tasked with visiting a Target supermarket that is 30 minutes away. They have a new snack that my partner wanted to try and so I made the trek, but there was one problem. My instructions said that the food Continue reading
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📖 Long Distance Journal Wrecking

October 4, 2023 11:32 pm Austin, Texas ☁️ 82° F (28° C) Got a letter in the mail that was in my own handwriting. I thought a letter had been lost in the mail and then returned to me, but this was a self-addressed stamped envelope that I had shipped to my pal Tony in Continue reading
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🎃 Halloween Treats & Video Games

Austin, Texas. 8:51 am, 🌥️ 78° F (25.5° C). Disgaea 7 released yesterday and I’ve already got about 5 or 6 hours of play time in this game. One of my adventure goals is to beat a video game. Ever since switching to PC gaming, partially due to the difficulty in finding a PS5 or Continue reading
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⛺Texas State Parks

Monday October 2nd, 11:58 pm 🌘 80° F (27° C) I am trying to up my stamp game with postcrossing as many stamp collectors use the site and I had one that specified that they do not want the round international stamps. It costs $1.50 right now to mail a regular size and weight postcard Continue reading
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🦕 Dinosaur Weekend

Sunday October 1st, 10:22 pm ⛅ 82° F (28° C) The Dinosaur Park We spent $22 on an entrance fee and $1 for a post card at The Dinosaur Park just outside of Austin. This was one of many items that I have added to my adventure list in the last few months. Despite this Continue reading
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🚗 Michigan Pt. 2

Tony Being cool. We purchased a doll head to launch in a homemade catapult. We spent around two hours making this contraption and argued about the best ways to use materials on hand. For example we used two zip ties in a loop to stop the catapult. This allowed us to tighten it down until Continue reading
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✈️ Michigan pt. 1

It all begins with a flight from Austin to Detroit. Three comments about this. 1. The Detroit airport does not have useful signage. It’s surprisingly difficult to get out of this building. I worked with another Austin visitor and took the train pictured above and fumbled around the building until this was resolved. 2. The Continue reading
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🎒 Backpacking!

Hello from ☀️ sunny Austin Texas at 10:09 am on Tuesday September 12th. It is currently 82° F (28° C). As of yesterday I have begun to practice hiking. I do not know if this will stick, but I have a nice new backpack, a cheap activity tracker watch and a love for tracking progress Continue reading
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🤫A Secret Message

Austin, Texas Monday 9/11/23 8:31 ⛅ 71° F (22° C). The sticker that I forgot to purchase during my visit to the San Antonio Missions Natural History Park has arrived. I have continued to use the method of placing these stickers that I learned from a ranger in Utah of cutting down the info sticker Continue reading
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Espoo 🇫🇮

Hello from Austin Texas on Friday Sept. 8th of 2023. ☀️ High of 106° F (41° C) today. Yesterday morning I sent a postcrossing card to the delightfully named city of Espoo in Finland. I am spending much of my energy at this time researching adventures to have in Michigan next week. My current focus Continue reading
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Draw Outside of The Lines

Good morning from Austin Texas at 8:44 am on Thursday September 7th. It is currently 79° F (26° C) and sunny ☀️. Yesterday I tried out some new markers that my partner bought for me on a page in Wreck This Journal where the goal is to color outside of the lines. You may have Continue reading
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