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by Ariel.RiversJuly 16, 2013

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Recent Adventures

We won the neighbor lottery when we randomly landed in this particular spot in the foothills. Terrie and Ron have basically adopted us... They feed us, take us out on their boat, let us hang out with their kids and grandkids, and at 60 years young, Terrie can out wakeboard her daughter and I (She's the first video, her daughter is the second, and I'm third). Love the community vibes in Cool.

Grumpy vibes = happy native flowers.

Early Monday morning invasive species management.

We have no way of knowing who our first chicken egg came from, but of course we're pretending it belongs to Breadcrumbs. 🥚🍳🍞

Savannah is delightful. Spending a few days here to celebrate the pending nuptials of @flickerfrank and @seankinne was amazing. I definitely enjoyed learning about the city's ghosts, its founding on a distrust of lawyers (when 75% of our group was lawyers 😂), meeting other bachelor(ette) parties, and trying not to eat shit on the historical steps that I took at my own risk. Thanks for the good vibes, ladies!

I was too busy enjoying the lake this weekend to get good pictures of the loyal adventure dogs. In spite of his age, Tune is a much better paddle board and canoe companion than Waffles, who basically just wants to chase every splash, stick, pine cone, deer and bird that could ever have existed in the Sierras.

Three weeks in the Pacific reminded me of three things:

Met a Palauan woman the other day (maybe a few years younger than me), who has a law degree from the US and dual-citizenship, but now serves as a Special Assistant to the Vice President of Palau. As she finished her degree, she decided to forego her earning potential in the US to move to Palau, a country she hadn't actually spent that much time in and where the minimum wage is $3.50/hr. Sandy Hook was recent to her graduating, and she struggled with what type of life she'd be providing her kids in the US. What little I saw of Palau was beautiful and everyone was so kind and creative, and I'd probably be right there with her if it made any kind of legal or logistical sense. But this is not an advertisement for everyone to go Columbus other countries since ours is pretty shitty these days, but a reminder that there are other models out there that we can look to... not only for how to create a safe and healthy life for all (their conservation programs are banging, so this includes non-humans), but for how to slow down and reduce our collective need to hoard money and things.

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