I'm just a Chicago Gal experiencing the California Wildfires. First,it was the Sand Wildfire that began just weeks after we moved from Chicago to California. The Sand Wildfire was merely miles away from us.
I'm just a Chicago Gal experiencing the California Wildfires. First,it was the Sand Wildfire that began just weeks after we moved from Chicago to California. The Sand Wildfire was merely miles away from us.
Yesterday in the texts between M, JD & Z, we talked about how different the seasons are between us. M is now living near Boston and has had to battle several winter storms already. When the blizzard hit last month, it forced M to stay in while viewing photos of Z (Los Angeles) and JD (Phoenix) playing in the sun. As they frolicked in the warmth, M was trapped...
My previous winters in Chicago always left me wishing I could be somewhere warm and wonderful. I needed to end the year traveling with a little adventure, a little bit of city, a little bit of luxury, a little culture, and of course, a little bit of nature. So I met JD in Palm Springs, the closest point to halfway between Phoenix and Los Angeles as we could get. It...
As our final trip of 2017, JD and I met up in Palm Springs with our families to say goodbye to 2017, with the three things Where Gals Wander is all about: Travel. Nature. Adventure.-Zanne First in our series: San Jacinto Mountain.JD: After my European travels this summer, I’ve vowed to fall in love with as many places as possible. I don’t always have the time to...
As we share our stories, we have been fortunate to meet others along and they have shared their stories with us as well. We are honored to collaborate with Adam Asher from The Edge of Adventure, about his journey to Nicaragua to film a community where in their own words: “We lived like we had been abandoned. But now our hearts are full of love.”-Zanne As...
Note from Editor-in-Chief: As we share our stories, we have been fortunate to meet others along and they have shared their stories with us as well. We are excited to reprint an article from Mike Satterfield of The Gentleman Racer, with his permission, about his cross-country road trip by motorcycle from Ohio to California. (Zanne)
Recently, we published a post of M’s Butterflies and Morning Walks and we had a lot of people ask us to put together a collection of the beautiful photos M has taken on her walks throughout the New England countryside and scenes of her new life since leaving the Midwest. As we come up on our six-month anniversary since launching our social media...
JD is settling in and she is discovering a love of hiking in Arizona. She is trading corn stalks for cactus and getting out to explore the new setting. Expanding her comfort zone, JD started hiking through the Sonoran trails. She was excited to share her newfound love of hiking through Arizona.