…with your little corner of paradise.

I’ve already made it pretty clear that we love living in Flagstaff. Draw a six hour travel circle around Flagstaff. Within that circle you will find several “trip of a lifetime” National Parks, the red rocks of Sedona, the San Juan mountains of SW Colorado, world class mountain biking, rivers to float, mountains to climb, and trails to explore. If you stretch the six hours a wee bit, you also get the Pacific Ocean. Right here at home we have our own mountain, running and mountain bike trails, and a community crazy in love with those activities. We love Flagstaff!

Throughout history though, inquiring minds have yearned to discover what lies “beyond”. As much as we enjoy all there is to enjoy in our own little six hour circle, we also yearn to discover what lies “beyond”. We’ve already done lots of exploring in our first half-century (plus) of trips around the sun. Turns out there are still quite a few blank spots on the map. I’ll be honest though, my bias toward mountains and canyons leads to somewhat negative preconceived notions of what lies “beyond” in many of those blank spots.

So here’s the challenge. Sharon and I have determined that we would not let our preconceived notion of places determine where we go – or more importantly – how we see the places we go. Clearly, lots of people live in and love parts of the country (and world) that we might never consider either living in or loving. We have decided that as we travel, we want to try to find what it is about a place that people love. We want to find the things that would make us fall in love with some place we’ve never been. We’d like to meet the people, eat the food, experience the way of life, find the little pockets of beauty wherever they exist, and fall in love with a place. We’d like your help. We’d love it if you’d reach out to us in some way and let us know what you love about your little corner of paradise and why you love it.

I’ll be writing about what we find in our upcoming travels. Sign up below if you’d like email notifications when new posts are added. And thanks in advance for your help.