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It Happened In Monterey (Or, How We Met)

by Daniel Noll

Last Updated on April 21, 2024 by Audrey Scott

This is a story about finding love just when you'd sworn off looking for it.

In early September, Audrey and I co-presented at a conference in Monterey, California. Monterey just also happens to be the place where we'd first met almost exactly 15 years before, where our joint approach to life on the road got its start.

In the driveway, the exact spot where our lives together began, we got to thinking how best to answer another oft-asked question: “So how did you guys meet?”

Keep Tickin’: Life Inspiration from Nonagenarians

by Audrey Scott

Last Updated on April 22, 2024 by Audrey Scott

Last weekend, I arrived in Asheville, North Carolina to visit family. And boy, was I tired.

The last two months have been chock full: traveling from Central Europe to Crete to Istanbul to Iran, back to Istanbul, Germany and finally to a series of family visits up and down the east coast of the United States.

But I’ve been feeling a little spent. It’s not only the movement, but also my head, to the brim with fresh experiences and quite frankly deprived of the time and space to properly process them all. Amidst the fatigue, I began to wonder if perhaps I had reached some limit in what I could do, what I could take on.

Gross Eats, Fearless Leaps and Lemonade Stands: Kids Being Kids [Audio Slideshow]

by Audrey Scott

Last Updated on June 21, 2020 by Audrey Scott

Ah, kids these days. The list runs long of their digital addictions: texting, gadgets, Facebook, internet, and video games. But during our visit to the U.S., we bore witness to a few fleeting moments that reaffirmed that kids are still kids.

That is to say, kids as we knew them: little girls leveraging the lemonade-stand model to raise money for an afternoon trip to the toy store, middle schoolers oohing and aahing over stories about eating bugs and engaging with giant rodents, and high schoolers jumping off absurdly high cliffs to demonstrate their mettle.

With cultural evolution at high speed, it’s comforting to know that while many things have changed, a few remain the same.

Note: If you are looking for eye candy, check out the time lapse audio slideshow of the kids jumping off the ledge at the waterfall here.

The Inauguration, He Said: Of Mobs and Men

by Daniel Noll

Last Updated on June 20, 2020 by Audrey Scott

Think a press pass to the 2009 Presidential Inauguration meant that crowds parted at security gates like the Red Sea did for Moses?

Inauguration Crowds - Washington DC — Inauguration crowds during Obama's 2009 Inauguration

Think again.

Inauguration Day, She Said: Peace Corps on Parade

by Audrey Scott

Last Updated on December 17, 2019 by Audrey Scott

Start: 5:30 AM. Finish: 7:00 PM. Time actually spent marching in the inaugural parade: 30 minutes. Was it all worth it?

You bet.

Scranton – Small Town, Big Shadow

by Daniel Noll

Last Updated on June 20, 2020 by Audrey Scott

I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania and that’s as hardscrabble a place as you’re gonna find.

— An actor playing Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live

I told a friend the other day that we were in Scranton and he responded, “Are you from there? How did it feel to be in America’s most famous political city?”