“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” (Nikki Rowe)
How does summertime help one find inner peace? Click song link below )
https://youtu.be/on4DKeVGeAY?si=K0FEodg20SXZrzil
Oftentimes my goal to obtain inner peace on any given day can be an overwhelming task to accomplish. Understand that my historically tested tendency to “ramp up” my physical and emotional responses to life challenges produces unneeded stress at various seasonal times. During my thirty some teaching years, for example, I depended on overworking myself day and night to solve those periods of crisis in managing my classroom environments efficiently. Then when summer vacations arrived, matters of leisurely enjoyment often seemed to be the furthest habit to induce on my mind.
So that’s where making time to have fun during more recent summertime road travels comes in to help me enjoy more relaxing times in various regions visited when I can. Yet with my keen awareness of more vacationers on the move during these warmer weather months across America, I’ll need to “dig deep” to find more unexpected de-stress opportunities to avoid such potential crowded chaotic frenzy.
I invite you then to preview our upcoming itinerary next month in the title photo above. In particular, observe those shaded regions we intend to visit on our upcoming northerly route. You can also obtain in the annotated photographic list below some specific paired insights predicting how I might salvage summer solitude during each of our thirteen planned stopovers.







Cool down with a breezy sailboat ride – Lake Champlain, Vermont visit






This sounds like such a peaceful and thoughtful trip. I love how each stop has its own little moment of peacebut and I know others steal a few of these stopovers for their own dose of summer calm!
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Thanks for your pics.
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Why don’t you send some photos of China daily life in your blog?
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Sounds like a fun itinerary. I’ve been to some of these states before, but mostly only passing through, so I’m curious to hear more about your travels, especially to the Finger Lakes.
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A versecraft share
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