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On Being Less “Numb”
The modern world is such a paradox. We are more prosperous, more secure and more comfortable than ever before. Yet, we also seem anxious, depressed and generally dissatisfied. What is going on? What...
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Utah- A Place Like Nowhere Else
Downtown Salt Lake City Most of Utah’s population lives in a region referred to as the “Wasatch Front“, which is essentially the area from Ogden to Provo, including Salt Lake City, boxed out in red in...
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How to Find Opportunity and Positivity in a Midlife Crisis
Photo via Pexels For more articles like this, take a moment to explore the many experiences and adventures documented on The Action Story! Your midlife crisis does not have to be a negative...
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Weekend Trip Guide: Enjoy Yourself While Staying on Budget
This is a guest post written by Henry Moore. Henry is the co-creator of FitWellTraveler. The site blends two of his favorite subjects (travel and health) to provide readers with information about how...
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Places Extroverts Love
It’s been hard to know what to expect the last two years. First, places that are typically lively, full of people, full of life, suddenly became empty as the pandemic shut down businesses and places...
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Homesteading in Southern Colorado
Location undisclosed I did my best to keep up, as Homesteaders discussed things like tools, setting up electrical systems, building wells, cultivating crops and guns and ammo. Much of it is just to...
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A Social Contract for 2022 and Beyond
To live in a community, a culture, a society or a nation…. What do we owe one another? What is our obligation to one another? How much must we do for the common good rather than pure self-interest? To...
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Our Journey
The second half of November is an interesting time of year. In some ways it’s reminiscent of moments like seeing the team behind by 14 points in a football game fumble the ball away with five and a...
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Ride the Rockies Day 4: Telluride to Ridgeway
It was after the challenging third day of the ride that my legs started to feel like bricks. On one hand, I felt somewhat relieved that the day 4 ride was only 40 miles with only one climb, up Dallas...
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The Great Divergence
When the first pandemic in over 100 years disrupted our lives, forcing many of us to stay home and stay apart from one another, I instantly became consumed with what life would be like when the...
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What I Want From My Summer 2021
I am not sure how to describe the emotional feeling of coming out of one of the toughest winters we’ve ever experienced. When the third wave of the coronavirus brought on new restrictions last...
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A New Appreciation for the First Half of May
This year, many of us suddenly found ourselves living our lives at a far slower pace. This period of partial shut down, with more time to just think and observe what is around us has now extended for...
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When Questions Lead to More Questions
I boarded a train downtown. I was on it for about half an hour. I stepped off the train in a place called Olde Town Arvada. As soon as I got off the train I felt this pleasant feeling of comfortable...
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Off-Seasons and Wanderlust
We dream of adventures in far away places. The majesty of watching the sun set over an endless ocean from a tucked away campground. Of endless forests, whose trees stretch endlessly up towards the...
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The Benefits of Being a World Traveler
I usually don’t like posting photos taken from an airplane. Especially ones where the wing of the airplane is clearly showing, like this one … The situation was just too good! The flight path, which...
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Five Years in Denver
A personal narrative.. I cannot believe it has been five years since I moved to Denver, and I cannot believe that 2017 is already half over. I’d say “time flies”, but that is kind of a cliché. Time...
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An All-Inclusive Week At Cancun’s El Dorado Royal
Day 1: Every time I land in another country, something feels different. I had this feeling when I first landed at the airport in Cancun, despite the fact that much of my surroundings were remarkably...
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Celebrating Our Accomplishments
Life is full of events, both events in which we have control over and events which we do not. This is true for everybody, from the most successful and confident people to the most disillusioned....
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Pure Instinct
I needed to take a day “off”, and my instinct told me Wednesday should be the day. Day-to-day life over the past month or so had left me kind of burnt out, unnecessarily and inexplicably exhausted,...
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Backpacking in the Weminuche Wilderness: Day 3
The Weminuche Wildreness appeared to be particularly devastated by the recent Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic. While a portion of the second day was spent above the tree line and in storms for much of...
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