Morning Coffee and Dried Up Paint


I was thinking the other day about how the old explorers of land and sea would keep journals about their adventures. They would describe the day’s happenings and sketch what they saw. I think this blog will be like that. It will be a place to marvel at the ordinary, traveling great stretches in the middle of taking a pause.

 

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