tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159364512009-11-19T11:55:42.558-07:00<p>"Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." ~ W James. CoolWorks has gathered some of our favorite real people. They have agreed to share their dreams, tales, triumphs, disasters, adventures and every day existences with you here. "Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live." ~ M Aurelius. Enjoy.</p>Billnoreply@blogger.comBlogger175125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-53875364093049098112009-03-06T13:18:00.002-07:002009-03-06T13:20:50.348-07:00

Hi all who read this! Due to requests, we just wanted to let you know that Erin & Begee's new blog is at http://erinandbegee.blogspot.com/ . We're sad about the end of the Coolworks.com Blogging the Dream, but we would love for you to check out our new blog. We've even copied over all of the old entries (without pictures for the moment, but hopefully that will be fixed soon). Happy travels!

Erin and Begeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852112156256578514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-70211961058024601992009-02-23T16:04:00.004-07:002009-02-23T16:18:25.428-07:00

You may have noticed that this blog has not been as active as it once was. Part of the reason for this is the growth and acceptance of our social network, My CoolWorks. We began the network almost two years ago, but over the last six months, even the last three months, we have had an explosion in the number of members and activity. If you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend stopping by

Kari Quaashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098825636964425906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-64047834805647011992008-12-01T16:17:00.010-07:002008-12-01T18:02:12.400-07:00

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all." -Michelangelo"I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus Rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough nature." -Edward AbbeyI had to turn the porch light on, clap my hands, and shout a few words this morning before

Davenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06625660260211242199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-48339331634264282362008-11-12T00:10:00.006-07:002008-11-12T00:45:02.222-07:00

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Scott Herringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06329692617737783012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-15682199062940295672008-11-05T20:41:00.008-07:002008-11-05T21:20:20.932-07:00

Hello from our home for the night - a Super 8 Motel in Columbia, Missouri! We are on the road again... cue Willie Nelson.In the last three and a half weeks, we have taken a boat from Martha's Vineyard to Woods Hole, Mass., driven to Vermont, GOTTEN MARRIED, flown in a hot air balloon, taken a ferry across Lake Champlain, driven to Ohio, flown to Miami, taken a cruise around the Western Caribbean,

Erin and Begeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852112156256578514noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-35971856857185785342008-10-29T18:26:00.013-06:002008-10-30T19:32:15.135-06:00

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries -Aldous HuxleyThere are no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign. -Robert Louis StevensonKyle of Toungue (n., psychiatric): Irrational anxiety caused by wondering whether or not the ox tongue in your sandwich is meant for tasting you right back.-Douglas AdamsChou Phu (n.): Any completely made-up dish sold as a

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661119812721616474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-58250485110216333382008-10-26T21:44:00.008-06:002008-10-26T22:05:13.042-06:00

Salta (Argentina) was marvellous. The town is beautiful, old, with a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere. An entire month we were hosted by Federico, a member of Autostop Argentina - a club uniting all Argentinian backpackers who use hitchhiking as a way of traveling. Federico invited us into his life and made us part of his family - girlfriend Anita and Dalmatiner Albita, who always brought it's

Katja and Augustashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700592007078676394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-39947928176206161082008-09-26T07:59:00.004-06:002008-09-26T08:51:33.880-06:00

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."-Mark Twain"Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation… Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information –

Davenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06625660260211242199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-23691675217818161702008-09-12T10:50:00.002-06:002008-09-12T11:00:20.501-06:00

I’m not sure where I left off… what was my last blog about? Let me go check…Ah, yes way back when I wasn’t sure if Playa del Carmen was for me. Well, Playa didn’t seem to care if I was unsure and it swept me up in a whirlwind of kindergarten, contracts, productions, shows, and yoga. Alright, focus, where to begin?Denya, my daughter, began kindergarten a week ago. My goodness, I have been

Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14039204204825528626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-56737548792910291792008-09-04T00:24:00.002-06:002008-09-04T00:54:08.805-06:00

The Yellowstone park concession company involved in this tale of woe shall remain blameless. So, certainly, shall its employees. But it was a taste of hell.We recently made one of our long trips to Greater Yellowstone. In order that I should not seem like a complete crank, I agreed to go with the rest of the family on the Roosevelt cookout. Roosevelt is a small village in the north part of the

Scott Herringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06329692617737783012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-2326338831646512032008-08-27T19:11:00.002-06:002008-08-27T19:19:11.718-06:00

July 29th was our fifth anniversary, and we wanted to do something really special to celebrate the day. We’ve done helicopter rides, we’ve summitted Denali in a small bush plane, oxygen masks and all, we’ve been dog sledding on a glacier, we’ve been horseback riding, we often ride rollercoasters, and we’re getting married in a hot air balloon. Erin has even been skydiving. One thing that we’ve

Erin and Begeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852112156256578514noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-28962798314571689612008-08-21T21:10:00.005-06:002008-08-22T03:42:46.055-06:00

My last blog was written around the time I departed Thailand, so these first couple of paragraphs are an abridged chronological catch-up.After brief visits with family and friends in the States, I spent two months working at Yellowstone National Park. That was followed by a month hiking in the Sierra's, and two days ago I arrived in China.This blog was written in the Beijing airport, and is

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661119812721616474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-11007485531842063672008-08-07T11:21:00.005-06:002008-08-07T12:12:13.354-06:00

After San Pedro we needed a change. We have had enough desert, and were longing for green. Since Augustas got another website project, and Argentina is definitely a cheaper place to work in Internet cafes, we decided to head to Salta. We were lucky since two days after making a call on www.autostopargentina.com.ar website for needing a place to stay, Federico from Salta invited us to his house.

Katja and Augustashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700592007078676394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-47700794490872043242008-08-05T16:33:00.002-06:002008-08-05T16:45:23.442-06:00

I've been sharing with my friends and family selected entries from the journals I've filled over the years. It seems people enjoy reading them and I'd like to share them with readers here.April 3, 2001 (from Amarillo, TX):I've yet to find a location that can harness the incredible energy that I feel inside. I don't like to slow down. I'm ready to act and react. I feel the music moving inside

Kyle Hammonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09748115672202731802khammonstravel@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-75127994258919961532008-08-03T13:29:00.006-06:002008-08-03T14:11:32.702-06:00

"To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them." Albert Camus.I read a book this winter by Colin Thubron, a British traveler and historian who recently bummed rides and rode derelict buses from Xian, China to Antioch, Turkey. The ancient Silk Road. Of his many reflections during his journey, one has

Davenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06625660260211242199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-36759811857796255432008-07-23T12:30:00.002-06:002008-07-23T13:05:57.962-06:00

We’ve been in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for six months now. A month ago we moved into a great little apartment that had opened up. Funny thing, it’s the same apartment we lived in when our daughter, Denya, was born. I remember the first night we were back here it seemed so strange. Like a time warp, a déjà vu, a step into the past. I had some doubts about moving into the apartment, some feelings

Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14039204204825528626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-41753908872828843932008-07-15T23:58:00.007-06:002008-07-16T03:19:56.877-06:00

Yellowstone had been burning for about a month when the park's chief ranger had a close brush with fiery death.It was July 14, 1988, twenty years ago, and some weeks into what would become the most violent fire season in the recorded history of the park. Dan Sholly, head of the law enforcement division and a close advisor to park superintendent Bob Barbee, had until this date been ready to let

Scott Herringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06329692617737783012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-36477738627716217522008-07-09T16:36:00.007-06:002008-07-09T17:43:45.720-06:00

Greetings from Edgartown Pizza in the heart of Edgartown, Massachusetts - on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Once, when we were applying to seasonal jobs in the US Virgin Islands, our potential future employer asked us, very smugly, "Have you ever lived on an island?" Why, yes, we had. At that time, we were, in fact, living on Catalina Island in California. We had also lived on Oahu in Hawaii

Erin and Begeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852112156256578514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-75824527247446350362008-06-16T11:59:00.003-06:002008-06-16T12:22:04.062-06:00

Traveling can't always be always a fairy tale and it only makes sense that this day would be challenging. After two days biking across vast ruins in one of the hottest parts of Sri Lanka, I climbed Sigiriya in the early morning, quickly packed my bags and caught a tuk-tuk south to the town of Dambulla. I figured I could see the cave temples there and then catch a bus several hours south to Kandy,

Kyle Hammonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09748115672202731802khammonstravel@yahoo.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-91897407523996552162008-05-28T06:46:00.005-06:002008-05-28T07:05:34.695-06:00

For backpackers travelling without popular travel guides (e.g. "Lonely Planet") or people like us, who usually do not know more than the currency rate of the country we are crossing the border of, the South of Peru and North of Chile can be quite a surprise.After hitch-hiking a plane out of the Peruvian jungle (from Iquitos to Lima, the capital of Peru), we ended up staying with our friend Carla

Katja and Augustashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700592007078676394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-19102636605085976122008-05-18T18:09:00.006-06:002008-05-18T19:12:42.320-06:00

Disfrutate! Estas al fin del mundo!(Enjoy yourself! You're at the end of the world!)I only have a few more hours at the end of the world. I'm in Ushuaia, Argentina (the southernmost city in the world). It is roughly 1:15 am, and I have to catch a bus to El Calafate, Argentina in less than four hours, and then across the Chilean border to the sleepy port town of Puerto Natales. It should be one of

Davenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06625660260211242199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-69200074038577389772008-05-10T09:16:00.003-06:002008-05-10T09:25:31.076-06:00

International Munchkin This blog is almost always a commentary about me and my adventures traveling and working abroad, but this time I want to talk about my smallest travel companion who has survived and supported all these changes with a smile and an adventurous spirit. She began this blogging journey along with me traveling to China and she has always supported our free-moving lifestyle.

Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14039204204825528626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-3163415614185592762008-05-07T00:17:00.002-06:002008-05-07T00:47:03.703-06:00

On the afternoon of our first day in Yellowstone last year--a dusty, too-hot Montana afternoon--I had to search out a payphone in Gardiner, the park's northern gateway community. I had not dropped coins into a telephone since I had been here the previous year, and the phone I used then had for some reason been removed, and with no finesse whatsoever; all that remained was the wall bracket,

Scott Herringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06329692617737783012noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-78906271104973866732008-04-25T07:49:00.006-06:002008-04-27T08:19:23.201-06:00

Mea culpa. This entry is 4 days behind. I flew into the U.S. to discover that my Dad had broken a femur, and I've been carless and computerless in Ventura County. My apologies, and here goes...RELATED QUOTES"Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling between what one holds to be true and what one knows to be true. In simple terms, it can be the

Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12661119812721616474noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15936451.post-3103500435495413552008-04-24T19:53:00.022-06:002008-04-25T14:08:02.624-06:00

Hi all! Sorry if we’re a little late writing our blog this time; we didn’t really think we had that much to talk about. As it turns out, we do have a little something. It’s that time of the season again where, after 7 months here in Arizona, we find ourselves with 16 days and counting before the ranch closes for the summer. We’ve been filling out applications, sending out resumes, checking out

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