Author:bluelollipoproad

January 20, 2013 In Blue Lollipop Road Memorial Scholarship, Donations

thank you bob harris!

In lieu of gifts for a retirement party I attended this weekend it was suggested that guests make a donation to their favorite charity. My newly retired friend Bob’s wife requested that for my donation, I give to the Blue Lollipop Road Memorial Scholarship fund- which I happily did.

A hundred years ago I dated Bob’s son, Andrew, that’s how we know each other. Andrew might not know this, but he had a huge part in influencing my choice to live the “vagabond” lifestyle, so how perfect that all these years later Bob and his family still support young people reaching their travel goals.

Thanks Bob! I look forward to sharing who becomes the recipient of the 2013 Blue Lollipop Road Memorial Scholarship. Here’s to adventure at any age. You are just getting started!

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January 20, 2013 In News & Updates

take a seat and watch yourself for a while

In the 5 months I’ve been mostly absent from here since our Play It Forward event in Vermont on 8/18/12, I’ve sort of been in an unplanned hiding phase, that I had no idea I needed. I’ve been catching up on sleep, work and bills. Everything the unexpected (to me anyway) exhaustion that 18 years of travel and go, go, go creates. Fall 2012 turned out to be a time to reflect, rest and let go…a lot. If you had told me back on August 18th as I was standing in that single Play It Forward Event day, which filled me with an energy, pride, and momentum for the future- that I was about to spend the following months feeling like my feet were stuck in cement buckets (not the bad kind) coming straight from a Chicago high-rise bustling social, sport, and work life, to living on a farm in Virginia down a dirt road of solitude- I would have told you that you had lost your mind.

And here I sit in complete silence down that dirt road those near 5 month later thankful those cement buckets found me.

I’ve thought about BLR Play It Forward no less than 50 times a day since our August event as I’ve been in “hiding”. I’ve had the families of my lost friends, all the guests of our incredibly powerful event, the places like Taltree Arboretum and Gardens, restaurant @1800 who graciously invited me to spend time with them in 2012, other “road people” I’ve had intentions to write about, new places I’ve visited that I’ve made big promises to share about- and more on my mind. Obviously I have just not written about them all here as I had planned to. BLR my travels, the people, Play It Forward event, the food, my everyday experiences (even the mundane) are so deeply engrained in my soul, none of it could ever leave no matter how much break time there has been on daily writing here, or even if I never wrote again (which clearly is not going to happen:) I live BLR just as much now, if not more than ever before.

So what happened? Nothing really besides allowing myself to fully rest, step back, and let go to watch as a passenger in my life for once. My body is rested, and my mind is clearer than ever. I have had the ultimate and much needed retreat. Now I am ready to get back in the saddle again.

I’m excited to share that Ive been working on an updated site to launch here this spring. That’s right- ALL my posts (Near 1,400) and the thousands of my travel photos will be in one place, on 1 single website! Also I am writing a book! A lifelong goal of mine. It is a lot of work, but I can’t wait for the day I will hold in my hands a book with my name stamped on it.

Now for some Sunday morning coffee and catching up on all this homework I owe myself and you all…

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January 11, 2013 In Photos, Virginia

just beer

No Instagram, no special effects, just my delicious Devils Backbone Brewing Company Vienna Lager during a friends kids’ ski day at Bryce Resort:

Devils Backbone Vienna Lager at Bryce Resort

Yes, this is what non-skiing Vermonters do when they come to ski mountains. (At least that’s what this non-skiing sun and hot temperature loving Vermonter does.) I head to bermuda in 11 days. Waiting for the warm. Until then, a yummy beer with a view, and Friday afternoon laptop time in a scarf and sweatshirt suits me just fine:)

 

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January 7, 2013 In Donations, People, Virginia

thanks for lunch, andrew coast guard

And! Thanks once again to Matt Carter of DPI in Wilmington, NC for branding my bumper nearly 3 years ago. I sure have met a lot of nice and interesting people because of a small gifted piece of vinyl! Awesome.

Andrew:

Here’s to Upstate NY, The Great Alaska Highway, and to writing books. Hopefully we will both get one out in the nick of time- so each of our adventures can continue 🙂

 

 

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December 31, 2012 In Inspiration, Live the life you want to live

live like you mean it in 2013

I live like I mean it by spending time doing what I love, and with people I love. In this next year, I hope that for anyone reading this- you too will jump all over those “things” and people you’ve been thinking about for a while now. The clock never stops ticking, no matter how hard we try to force it to, so carpe diem baby…carpe diem.

Happy New Year!

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December 12, 2012 In News & Updates

where do you get mail anyway?

Lots of inquiries about a mailing address lately, so for any curious cats:

Diane Peacock
Blue Lollipop Road
PO Box 276
Shaftsbury, VT 05262

***(No matter where I’m traveling or working, this still remains the permanent mailing address for BLR and I. When I’m not in Vermont, all mail is always forwarded to me.)

I look forward to questions and interest about the Blue Lollipop Road Memorial Scholarship, our BLR Play It Forward Event, and holiday photos and other of your cute kids and pets of course!

I know It’s been a long fall of promised posts and news with not much followed up here, but rest assured, I just got very exciting news yesterday, and I’ve been working on something that dates all the way back to October 16, 2008- so more good stuff IS coming 🙂

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