Photos to Frame, Pt 1

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As we continue to juggle this complex transition, I’m enjoying the small task of sorting through photos of the past five years, picking out favorites and imagining them as part of our (dream) house in a variety of ways. Maybe a coffee table book, or a large wall of framed prints, or a small collage of themed photos in a bedroom. This is all just dreaming, but it’s a positive way for me to think about our past five years, right when I could use that positivity.

I’m going to start posting a few here every now and then, just for fun but not as any kind of edited retrospective. It’s more like, “Hey, I just found these cool photos!”

You should be able to see some of them full-screen if you click on them. (Others aren’t high-res originals because I’m still looking for them.)

Near Haines, Alaska, I believe. That’s Tracy in the far right corner.
Oregon Coast
Near the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Moose tracks left in a lake bed, in northwest British Columbia
Southern California, near Temecula
Near Keno City, Yukon
Millions of bats leaving their cave near Garner State Park in Texas. The line of them goes on out of this photo.
Onboard a tour boat of the Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
On Nelson Reservoir, near Sleeping Buffalo, Montana
Some of my favorite photos from the past five years of living on the road.
On the Beartooth Highway, along the border of Montana and Wyoming
Along the Denali Highway, Alaska
Ice fields Parkway, Alberta
MacKerricher State Park, California
Near Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. I loved this boondocking site with the deep washes and the rocky hikes. I’m wearing my favorite dress I bought from a roadside stand in the Keys and my Ariat boots from Wyoming.
A coast of Lake Superior from Wisconsin: Tracy is inside this cave, taking a shot of me outside it.
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
Death Valley (I have better pics of hiking here, I just need to find them)
Tracy fishing on the Kootaney River, Montana
Hiking on tundra in Tombstone Provincial Park, Yukon
Near Las Vegas, Nevada
Myakka State Park, kind of near Tampa, Florida
Near Red Lodge Montana. We took our shoes off to walk across a small dam.
Kayaking among the cypress in an oxbow of the Mississippi River, in Lake Chicot State Park, Arkansas
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Yellowstone National Park

I’ve got so many more photos. You’ve been warned.

Shelly

Former nomad, currently adjusting.

17 thoughts to “Photos to Frame, Pt 1”

  1. I love the idea of filling a wall with photos like these…a daily reminder of your nomadic past, preserved in the place where you decided to lay down roots. It’s almost poetic.

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    1. I’m hoping to do the idea justice! I did add a bunch of photos since you commented, not that ya gotta go back and look (you’ve seen them all anyway). Just felt like the initial post was kinda lame in terms of quantity.

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    1. Thanks! I did add a bunch more since you commented, not to say ya gotta go back and look, but so anyone else reading knows the last one you mention is no longer the last one. I like to complicate things. 🙂

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  5. Wow, you three have seen sooo much — what an adventure (and a well chronicled one). Best of luck in finding a place to settle in Madison!

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