Expedition: Silk Road

  It is coming…  Perhaps not soon, but it is coming…  Ladies and gentlemen!  Welcome to my greatest dream and proudest idea I have ever come up with!  Let’s see if we can’t make this happen!  This is Expedition: Runaway’s new project: ‘Expedition: Silk Road’.  I will be starting in one of 3 cities: Venice […]

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It’s Getting Cold (or Be Kind)

    Yeah, I know the air is getting cold in the northern hemisphere, but I’m talking about the world’s cold shoulder.  Welcome back to Expedition: Runaway!  I have the next installment of the AZ Trip up here.  I give my (not so unbiased) review of the Wildlife World Zoo in Pheonix AZ. So what’s up with […]

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I Blacksmith?

Yep, I turn old rusty pieces of garbage into knives, axes, and other tools of mayhem!  This is going to be a short post, but I hope you enjoy the pics!  I’m hoping to do historical reproductions at some point.  This knife is made from an old parking barrier spike with a paracord wrapped handle.  The […]

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AZ Trip: Home Again?

    The pictures are here!  Sorry everybody, I had summer school finals and my family from Arizona was visiting but the blog will continue as scheduled from here on.  Last we left off, we had just gotten through the Painted Desert/Petrified Forest (awesome!).  You can check out that post here!  We spent the night in […]

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New Mexican Beauty

It’s a hard thing for me to come through here without going back and feeling like a kid traveling to North Carolina rather than from it.  Before we moved, I had lived in Arizona for over 10 years but had traveled across country to visit NC several time which is when we fell in love […]

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AZ Trip Update: The Plains

Image is of Old 66 abandoned building at Exit 0 (scary) off the I-40 After eating my hotel breakfast yesterday, we hit the road again and drove through the sea of grass known as the Great Plains.  I have always loved the wide open spaces and I love to imagine what it would be like […]

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