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I hope you’ll a hrefhttp://www.therunnerstrip.com/2011/04/let%E2%80%99s-meet-plan-go/ target_blank>read more about it/a>—and find out why we went on our journey, in spite of a list of reasons not to, and concluded “it’s the best thing we ever did.”/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2943> h2 idpost-2943>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/12/29/happy-new-year-and-new-blog/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to Happy New Year and New Blog>Happy New Year and New Blog/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on December 29th, 2010/p> div classentry> p>To all the subscribers who regularly read this blog: Thank you, happy new year, and please visit a hrefhttp://therunnerstrip.com target_blank>my new blog/a>!/p>p>I launched a new site a few days ago to combine my passions for running and travel. It’s called The Runner’s Trip, and the tagline is Run Long, Travel Far, Discover More. a hrefhttp://www.therunnerstrip.com/2010/12/a-new-year-new-blog-welcome-to-the-runners-trip/ target_blank>The first post /a>and a hrefhttp://www.therunnerstrip.com/about/ target_blank>about/a> page describe its mission. In many ways it’s an outgrowth of this blog and a hrefhttp://sarahlavendersmith.com/blog target_blank>my first running blog/a>a hrefhttp://away-together.com target_blank>/a>. I’m mothballing Away Together and encouraging readers here to a hrefhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/runnerstrip target_blank>subscribe/a> to the new one./p>p>I greatly appreciate all who followed our family travel blog and shared their comments on our posts. I look forward to traveling more with my family and blogging about the destinations on The Runner’s Trip./p>p>Thanks again for taking the time to read this. I hope you find the new blog inspiring, motivating, informative, and entertaining./p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2883> h2 idpost-2883>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/10/05/a-new-season-a-new-way/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to A New Season, A New Way>A New Season, A New Way/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on October 5th, 2010/p> div classentry> p>This time last year, we were flying from LA to Buenos Aires and pondering the coincidence, which felt more like fate than happenstance, that Morgan and I were starting our adventure abroad 25 years to the day after he first reached over to touch my hand and I leaned in for a kiss. (That was October 5, 1984, the fall semester of his senior and my junior year in high school.)/p>p>I’m always doing that: thinking of what we were doing this time last year. I’m also looking ahead and feeling anxious — excited, but nervous — about what we’ll be doing one year from now./p>p>People ask all the time, “How are you doing? All settled back in?” That’s tough to answer. I usually say, “We’re doing well but still transitioning. We’re back home but not exactly settled.”/p>p>I wish I could either blog about new destinations or write a nice, tidy epilogue to the story of our trip. But we don’t have any noteworthy travel planned, and the story of what the trip meant and how it changed us is still developing./p>p>So I want to share what we’re up to these days, and then, with some sadness and until further notice, mothball this blog. I hope the day will come when I have reason to give it a makeover and launch an encore edition. a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/10/05/a-new-season-a-new-way/#more-2883 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2843> h2 idpost-2843>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/08/24/yosemites-curry-village/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to Yosemite’s Curry Village: Good Times with the Bear Necessities>Yosemite’s Curry Village: Good Times with the Bear Necessities/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on August 24th, 2010/p> div classentry> div idattachment_2861 stylewidth: 214px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Cabin.jpg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2861 titleour curry village cabin srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Cabin-204x300.jpg alt width204 height300 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>Our Curry Village tent cabin/p>/div>p>I was carrying my bag into Yosemite’s Curry Village, about to check into a canvas-sided, one-room shack that’s a hybrid of a tent and a cabin, when suddenly I came within an inch of stepping in one of the biggest piles of poop I’ve ever seen./p>p>I know dog doo, cat scat, cow pies, horse manure, deer droppings, feral pig dung and, of course, human feces, and I knew this cake-sized coiled turd was none of the above. Barely disguised with dust, and resting a mere 10 feet or so from our door, it looked frightfully fresh, thick, dark, and flecked with something nutty and grainy — a hapless hiker’s granola bar, perhaps?/p>p>“A bear did that!” I said out loud to no one in particular. Then I found Morgan to show him, and we in turn showed it to a man we had just met in the neighboring tent cabin./p>p>“I’m not surprised,” the man said. “You should see the patch job on my cabin,” and he held up his hand and mimed a menacing scratching motion while describing a large ursine claw mark still visible underneath a patch on his unit’s flimsy excuse for a wall./p>p>“Well,” I said to Morgan, “We’re not in The Ahwahnee anymore.” a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/08/24/yosemites-curry-village/#more-2843 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2795> h2 idpost-2795>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/08/14/one-year-later/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to One Year Later: The Time-Capsule Travel Letters and the ‘Eat Pray Love’ Backlash>One Year Later: The Time-Capsule Travel Letters and the ‘Eat Pray Love’ Backlash/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on August 14th, 2010/p> div classentry> p>Midway through our trip, my world-traveling friend Carolyn suggested that each of us write a letter to each other describing our feelings about the travel so far and our hopes for the remainder of the journey. This was in late January, when we had been away for five months and were living outside of Queenstown, New Zealand, for a couple of weeks. She told us to keep the letters secret and not share them until the trip ended./p>p>Morgan, Colly, Kyle and I each sat down and wrote letters reflecting on the experience, showed them to no one else at the time, sealed them up, and then opened and read them out loud over dinner in June on our last night before driving home. Now, the letters sit on my desk as reminders of what the round-the-world trip was all about. Today, for a couple of different reasons, I re-read them to reflect on how the 10-month trip affected us individually and as a family./p>p>One reason is the snarky backlash, prompted by the film release of em>Eat, Pray, Love/em>, to long-term travel for the sake of change, education and self-reflection. a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/08/14/one-year-later/#more-2795 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2734> h2 idpost-2734>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/07/12/homecoming/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to What A Long, Strange Homecoming It’s Been>What A Long, Strange Homecoming It’s Been/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on July 12th, 2010/p> div classentry> p>“Let’s sleep with the kids,” I said on our first night back in our house, which echoed from emptiness because our belongings remained in storage. Morgan agreed, and with relief I unrolled my sleeping bag on my daughter’s floor, putting her and Kyle on one side of me and Morgan on the other./p>p>I wanted to hear their breathing and feel their closeness one more night before everything changed back to our non-traveling life — before the movers came and filled our house with so much of the furniture and boxes of stuff that I now feel ambivalent about owning, and before my kids moved back into their own rooms and we all established our separate domains in this house that feels too big and fancy. I wanted to curl up in my sleeping bag and fantasize we were camping the way we did on the banks of the Colorado River or on the beach of New Zealand’s Abel Tasman Park./p>p>Everyone has been asking how it feels to return home. The short answer is: weird, and tiring! I haven’t felt this conflicted and unsettled since … well, since we pulled out of our driveway to start the trip on August 15, 2009./p>div idattachment_2740 stylewidth: 230px classwp-caption aligncenter>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_0766.jpeg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2740 titlefamily yosemite pic srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_0766-220x139.jpg alt width220 height139 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>The penultimate stop: We drove through Yosemite on our last day and arrived home about four hours later./p>/div>p> a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/07/12/homecoming/#more-2734 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2687> h2 idpost-2687>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/15/83-places-5-continents-10-months/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to 83 Places, 5 Continents, 10 Months>83 Places, 5 Continents, 10 Months/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on June 15th, 2010/p> div classentry> p>Less than 24 hours after our plane from Heathrow landed in Los Angeles, the four of us walked into a Noah’s Bagels on Sunset Boulevard for an early lunch. Our sense of time and place were thoroughly out of whack from jet lag and from the strangeness of waking up in Southern California, drinking Peet’s Coffee and tuning into the Disney Channel as though we’d never been away./p>p>As we stood ordering bagels, we suddenly remembered we had eaten lunch at the same Noah’s on the day before we flew to Buenos Aires in early October. “I feels like we were just here,” Colly said, and I agreed while my chest hiccuped with anxiety./p>p>It felt as though all those months abroad — which had stretched so elastically and netted so much in a single week, so that on the first of every month I’d express disbelief at how much we had experienced — had snapped back and condensed into a blip to make mental space for the task of reorganizing our lives and getting ready to move back into the house./p>div idattachment_2693 stylewidth: 230px classwp-caption alignright>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/last-checkout.jpg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2693 titlelast checkout srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/last-checkout-220x219.jpg alt width220 height219 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>Checking out of a hotel in Marlow, England, on our last morning before flying back to California./p>/div>p>I’m feeling profoundly mixed emotions upon our return and need to think more about the transition before trying to write much about it. I got weepy on our last night in Marlow, a lovely town outside of London, as we checked out of a hotel a final time and toasted our trip; then, I got teary with joy as we approached my hometown of Ojai last weekend for a reunion. I also am in the process of thinking through the next phase of this blog, so stay tuned and thanks to all of you who’ve read it regularly!/p>p>In the meantime, I’m publishing the following list as proof and as a reminder to myself that em>we really went to all of these places./em> We called this our “sleepover list” and had fun updating it as we traveled. Most are linked to previous blog posts if we wrote about that destination. Three places are listed twice since we visited there twice, so the number of places totals 83, but the bottom line is that we moved and unpacked 86 times!/p>p styletext-align: center;>span styletext-decoration: underline;>strong>The Sleepover List: August 15, 2009 – June 15, 2010: a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/15/83-places-5-continents-10-months/#more-2687 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/strong>/span>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2640> h2 idpost-2640>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/07/seaford-and-brighton/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to The Cure for the Brighton Hangover>The Cure for the Brighton Hangover/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on June 7th, 2010/p> div classentry> div idattachment_2644 stylewidth: 230px classwp-caption aligncenter>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC01317.jpg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2644 titlecolly bungee jumping srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC01317-220x128.jpg alt width220 height128 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>Colly does the bungee jump trampoline against the backdrop of the Brighton Pier./p>/div>p>Like cotton candy, Brighton is a brightly colored swirl of sweet temptation that’s tantalizing to taste but leaves you sticky and queasy./p>p>We went there for a couple of days for the same reason we make an annual pilgrimage to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk or Santa Monica Pier — because rickety amusement rides on the beach are guaranteed family fun — and we did indeed love to watch the kids on the spinning rides./p>div idattachment_2645 stylewidth: 230px classwp-caption aligncenter>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0628.jpg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2645 titlekids on ride srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0628-220x212.jpg alt width220 height212 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>On the pier, the world travelers became hurled travelers./p>/div>p>But, good grief, I haven’t seen so many drunk, swearing, sweaty and scantily clad young adults since the time we spent New Year’s Eve on the Las Vegas Strip. a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/07/seaford-and-brighton/#more-2640 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2490> h2 idpost-2490>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/04/london-and-windsor/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to Rediscovering London and Windsor>Rediscovering London and Windsor/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on June 4th, 2010/p> div classentry> div idattachment_2585 stylewidth: 230px classwp-caption aligncenter>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/lw1920.jpg target_blank>img classsize-medium wp-image-2585 titleLong Walk historical pic srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/lw1920-220x125.jpg alt width220 height125 />/a>p classwp-caption-text>An image of The Long Walk from the early 1900s. (Photo courtesy thamesweb.co.uk)/p>/div>p>Back in mid-April of 2007, I woke before sunrise in a hotel in the shadow of Windsor Castle and tiptoed out to run while Morgan and the kids slept. It was the final day of our family’s Spring Break trip to England. Having no clear idea of where I was headed, I found a trail to a wide strip of grass that stretched like a never-ending rectangular green carpet from the castle’s side gate. I had stumbled upon The Long Walk, the name Charles II gave the route in the 1680s./p>p>Parallel rows of symmetrical trees bordered the neatly mowed lawn, and a wide paved path extended straight down its middle for more than two miles. It was the carriage road, where centuries of processions rode and marched up to the gates, and I stood there virtually alone, dazzled by the dreamy view of the pink-tinged sunrise on the colossus castle that belonged in a fairy tale. Then I sprinted that path all the way to the gates, where a little old lady dressed in a proper navy blue uniform, her gray hair in a bun, happened to be stepping out of a guard’s booth./p>p>I stopped to watch as she slowly but surely walked to the center of the gold-tipped gate that towered above her diminutive frame. She reached in her pocket and pulled out an ancient-looking iron ring that dangled a giant skeleton key, and then she used both hands to turn the key in the lock and push back the iron wall, allowing me to imagine what it would be like to enter as a royal guest. Then she stood more upright, her duty for the morning — probably a duty she had performed for decades, following protocol of centuries — complete./p>p>I distinctly remember lingering at that moment to take in all the details because I felt certain it was a magical, once-in-a-lifetime run never to be repeated. I had a sense then that I wouldn’t, couldn’t return to that spot, and I thus experienced the bittersweet feeling of anticipatory nostalgia — of paradoxically missing something at the same moment it happens, which enhances the experience with appreciation yet also siphons off the fulfillment with a sense of loss./p>p>So why am I recounting this now? Because the other day I returned there for another sprint and experienced the joy of rediscovering a place. a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/06/04/london-and-windsor/#more-2490 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpost idpost-2427> h2 idpost-2427>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/05/31/essential-gear-for-long-term-travel/ relbookmark titlePermanent Link to Essential Gear For Long-Term Travel>Essential Gear For Long-Term Travel/a>/h2> p classpostmeta>Posted by a classcontact hrefhttp://away-together.com/contact>Sarah/a> on May 31st, 2010/p> div classentry> p>A year ago, as we packed up our house and got ready to go, I scanned various lists developed by travel experts of essential items to pack, and I invariably ended up more conflicted about what to bring for our round-the-world trip. We made a commitment to travel light — just one easy-to-carry clothing bag each, plus a communal gear bag and as few carry-ons as possible — and yet all these lists were telling us to bring so much em>stuff/em>./p>p>After 10 months of family travel, I don’t have a comprehensive packing list to share (a hrefhttp://www.ricksteves.com/plan/tips/packlist.htm target_blank>here’s a good one/a> for starters if that’s what you’re looking for), but I can detail some of the gear and clothing we found indispensable. a hrefhttp://away-together.com/2010/05/31/essential-gear-for-long-term-travel/#more-2427 classmore-link>p classserif>Read the rest of this page »/p>p>/a>/p> /div> /div> div classpagenavi>div classwp-pagenavi>span classpages>Page 1 of 7/span>span classcurrent>1/span>a classpage larger hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/2/>2/a>a classpage larger hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/3/>3/a>a classpage larger hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/4/>4/a>a classpage larger hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/5/>5/a>span classextend>.../span>a classnextpostslink relnext hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/2/>»/a>a classlast hrefhttp://away-together.com/page/7/>Last »/a>/div>/div> /div> div idright-sidebar> p>a hrefhttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DSC01578.jpg target_blank>img classalignleft size-medium wp-image-597 titleall packed up srchttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DSC01578-220x164.jpg altall packed up width220 height164 srcsethttp://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DSC01578-220x164.jpg 220w, http://away-together.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DSC01578-1023x764.jpg 1023w sizes(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px />/a>/p>p stylemargin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px;>We left our home in Piedmont, California, to spend a school year seeing the world and learning as we go. 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