Empty Nest Adventures
Life after the kids are grown
Month: May 2017
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Posted on May 31, 2017 by Empty Nest Adventures
My name is Julie Whitney and I live in northern Colorado with my husband and two sons. We moved here in 2004 from Southern California, looking for adventure and a different way of life. The boys were 8 and 5 then, and I was…
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson
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Have you done 23andMe or another DNA ancestry test? Did you have any surprises? I knew about my French, Irish, English, and German ancestry but I had two surprises. I had one 4th great-grandparent that was 100% North African and another that was 100% Sardinian. Maybe that explains my dark hair and eyes. Brett had one that was 100% Siberian. Where are your ancestors from? #dna
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I guess @john.wasko2018 and I are the only unlucky ones that embarrassing things happen to. This is his photo from Three Sisters area in Oregon and coincidentally, we were just there in June. What a gorgeous part of the country. I can’t wait to get back. Happy Sunday! #oregon
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#hiking #sunset #threesisters #mountains #cascades #optoutside #alltrails #summertime #hikinglife #centraloregon #usa #emptynestadventures
If you read my latest blog post, you know that the B & B where we stayed recently had paper thin walls and our neighbor was experiencing some major intestinal distress in the middle of the night. Thankfully, due to some kick ass @3m ear plugs, I missed this auditory extravaganza, but Brett commented, “it was like I was right in there with him.” Guy didn’t even know the intimate moment he shared with my husband. This isn’t in the same realm, but an embarrassing thing happened to me in college. I was late for a lecture in a theater that held a couple hundred students. We had assigned seating and mine was in the dead center. The lecture was well under way when I arrived and trying to hurry to my seat, I tripped over someone’s feet and landed on my stomach across the laps of three people. It was raining and I was holding a soaking umbrella and a bunch of other shit and I couldn’t get up, so I was laughing and apologizing and floundering and getting everyone wet, and the professor stopped speaking. It was brutal, but I was never late again. Do you have a moment you’d rather forget? Let’s start the weekend with some laughs. Best story will get a feature on ENA. (It has to be true!) And the northern lights don’t have anything to do with this post. They’re just really awesome. #makemelaugh
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#embarassingmoments #happenstoeveryone #whocares #laughatyourself #lifeisbetterwhenlaughing #northernlights #iceland #travel #auroraborealis #ilovetotravel #exploretheworld #adventures #letsgosomewhere #emptynestadventures
This was a good start to the day, but my favorite part was when our son stopped by and said he couldn’t stay long because the zipper on his favorite backpack had broken and he had found a seamstress that was going to give him a sewing lesson. I asked him why he didn’t just have her fix it and he said because you never know when you’re going to need to know how to sew something. He called later to say that it went great and that she was so surprised by his age. She had never had a 19 year old man request a lesson before. Love him!!! #grablifebythehorns
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#yogaontherocks #summeryoga #redrocks
Today I can say we will be in Morocco this month, even though it’s not until the 31st. 🙂This photo is courtesy of my friend @funrobink who is there now and having the time of her life. #morocco
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14er #10 ✅ See those clouds back there? Yeah, that was a snow storm that was coming in and hit while we were on a boulder field where we kept losing the trail. And at another time a huge gust of wind knocked me over. Scariest hike to date. But we did see a nanny mountain goat with her tiny kid, so that made up for the hairy parts. #snowinjuly
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