Wanderlust. My blog is moving (soon, soon) to a new locale that I fantasize is like cyber-Boulder, where I have never been, but which I assume is the best possible city for a liberal runner to live*. For much of the summer, Henry and I will also be visiting family, which will allow me hours and hours of writing time while he swims, paints, and eats strawberry ice cream. Then in August, I go to Australia for three weeks on my run-about in the bush.
Life is good. In fact, someone should put that on a t-shirt.
Clearly I'm incredibly fortunate to be in my life and have this opportunity. In celebration of my blog move and my travels, I am spreading the wealth. No, I'm not giving away a Qantas ticket next to me--sorry. Thanks to the awesome folks at All Modern Baby, I have a messenger bag from Timbuk2 to give away to a lucky blog reader. Based in Boston, All Modern Baby is a dependable source of children’s furniture that carries top brands such as Bugaboo, Stokke, and Maclaren. They also offer modern housewares and gear for grown-ups. And as most awesome people know, Timbuk2 makes those hip bags that let you feel like an urban bike messenger without the risk of death under the wheels of a city bus.
Pheidippides was a messenger. Maybe if he'd had a messenger bag to carry water and gels, he wouldn't have bit the dust in Athens.
To win the bag, leave a comment on this post, responding to the question:
If you could run off and wander anywhere in the world, where would you go?
I'll choose a name at random on Tuesday June 16 (noon, EDT) and post the winner with a review of the bag.
*Don't worry, Vanilla. I won't show up on your doorstep, unless it's to drop off another blonde kid for your
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I would run off and wander in Jackson, Wyo. You would catch me running the streets, the trails and maybe even to your house to get your little hiney up to come run with me. :D
I would run off and wonder around the London. I can't wait to go there and one day move there.
I would run off to Rome, do the marathon in the city and ship my bike so I could then go ride around the country side!
I would stir up some trouble in Tasmania. I just want to see what the little baby "foot" of an island is off of the main drag..
I would love to explore Spain! I loved England/Scotland as well and would always love to go back, but I've never been to Spain.
i would got to Greece and finish up my runs with some awesome Mediterranean food!
I would run off and wander around the Pacific Northwest. A: I have family there. B: It's so green! C: So many wonderful trail runs!
New Zealand! After listening to Dana of the Three Apples Tall running podcast talk about her recent trip there, I'm even more convinced that it's heaven on earth.
I would move back to where I came from! I grew up in Vermont, with mountains and trails galore. Of course, in all the years I lived there I never appreciated running, or doing anything outdoors really. Now, I'm an avid runner in a flat, below sea level part of the country, and do my long runs amongst cookie cutter neighborhoods. bor-ing. I long for a good trail run!!
I'm definitely thinking Ireland! I'd love to explore that!
I'd run off to northern california!
I would run the shores of Lake Michigan until I couldn't run anymore...moving 1000 miles from the Great Lakes is becoming more real by the minute.
Before I answer the question, I have a question of my own . . .how much crack can I fit in there :P
I would go run through the jungles of the Philipines. And with my luck I'd probably end up catching some crazy tropical disease, be mauled by a rabid monkey, or be captured by radicals. It would be lovely, really :P
I head off to Italy! Its my dream vacation, and since I'd be running, I could also keep eating!
Italy, Italy, Italy! Top to bottom. It's the only reason I keep buying lottery tickets.
The Loire Valley in France!
I would canter through Curitiba, Brazil. In 1972, city workers removed the pavement from the central historic boulevard, the Rua Quinze de Novembro, and, working around the clock, created the world's first pedestrian mall. Cobblestones, streetlights, kiosks, thousands of flowers. An instant success, pedestrians defended the space the following weekend from angry automobile-club invaders. These 20 downtown blocks are now called the Rua das Flores, the Street of Flowers. I learned about this in Hunter & Amory Lovins' "Natural Capitalism". Cheers! -Dave Snyder
i've been in the mood for italy lately, and I'd like to wander there and spend a bunch of time, but I'd like to also go back to my child-free self so that i could be free and easy and not feel guilty. italy, yes please.
The Dalmatian Coast- it is rumored to be a biker and runner's paradise!
I've enjoyed reading your blog! Found it off of Mama Simmons blog.
It is a hard decision - where to wander off and run to. But I would have to say I'd love to go to New Zealand and run. Sounds like such wonderful terrain and people. Can't beat that!
I would love to move back to Utah, its a runners paradise.
I'd run in the woods, alone, anywhere. Not enough of either in my life at the moment
I agree with a lot of the other gals out there, I would definitely run Italy. Never been but what better way to tour all the little nooks and cranies of the country than on foot? Top to bottom and coast to coast I would run Italy in a heartbeat.
I'd wander around Brazil and their beaches and hope that the hot Brazilian bodies would rub off on me and I'd look like them just by being there. Ha.
But seriously, Brazil. Seems like a good place to wander.
Just think, you could have come to Boulder, where your kid would have learned soccer from one of the greats (me) but instead you're going to be stuck in dusty Australia. Do they even have Starbucks there?
I would run across Central America (North to South) starting in Belize and through the Panama Canal. The highlight would be running through Nicaragua and getting a chance to meet my wife's family. Can you imagine the sites of the coast? The forrest runs that make a trail seem like bliss?
Funds and time willing. This would be quite an excursion. :)
I would wanderrun all around southern Europe- from Spain and Provence, France, to Italy and Greece with plenty of stops for bread, cheese, wine, olives, fruit, and desserts galore!!
I would 'cross the ditch' from NZ to Australia and run across the Nullabor desert. I would run from Adelaide to Perth, I'm guessing it would take a gruellling week (or two). It would be totally out of my comfort sphere,(or anyone's for that matter). I would have a great support team. What a desert! what an accomplishment...I dont think it's been done before...
Ooh, New Zealand . . . definitely New Zealand. Sigh, maybe someday! :)
I'd love to run around the Pacific NW, mostly because there are so many brewpubs, I might be able to run from brewpub to brewpub...
I'd run off and trek up Mount Kilimanjaro! Someday I'll really do it!
When I was old enough, I couldn't wait to leave home; I couldn't get out fast enough. It was and still is a depressed little area in upstate NY, but it is so bucolic.
Twenty-five years later I can finally appreciate the hills and valleys that were part of my hometown. I'd run there, through every little back road, quiet lane, dirty trail and open field.
Haworth, England -- pretend I'm one of the "wild" Bronte sisters in the new millenium (surely, if they lived now, Charlotte/Emily/Anne would be out there running their hearts out across those beautiful moors!!!)
Japan, New Zealand or India. I lived in Japan for several years, and NZ and India are also on the list.
ps - pick me, pick me!
I would run through the streets of Seville, Spain...not only is the city alive with Spanish culture, but I can't think of a better place to be at the end of a run than to wander into a little cafe for a glass of Rioja or a cafe con leche...definitely!
I am so jealous of your travel plans, especially the part where you will have lots of time to write!! If I could run off and wander, I would go to Rome. I read a book that took place there and have been fascinated by it ever since. Running there would be amazing!
I've never been, but I desperately want to wander off to Italy for a few months/years. I'd love to run in the countryside and ride my bike up a few mountains.
I'd like to wander a while in Alaska. Lots of great places to racewalk, the midnight sun, Denali National Park, the arctic circle, you name it. Someday I will go!
Either (literally) my back yard: an enormous redwood forest on the edge of the Pacific ocean, or shopping the streets of New York City with very comfortable shoes.
Somewhere with internet access. I can rough it without a bed, toilet, phone or even toilet paper. I cannot, however, be unconnected. Sigh.
The Grand Canyon (from one rim to the other) is a good adventure run. It's 25 miles of glorious angst. That's the one I want to do again... but only if I can get wifi on my mePhone.
I would wander and run around northern Canada - Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut... But not in the winter when it's dark all the time!
Lake Placid, NY. It really is a magical place. It has been described as "heaven on earth", but I beg to differ - it is "heaven"!
I would run off an wander the Milford Trek in New Zealand. We hiked it when I was a kid and looking back I think it would be an amazing 4 day trail run.
That's a hard one. Really hard. I ache to get out and see the world, but it's not going to happen anytime soon for me. I am actually giddy with anticipation for the chance to live vicariouslly through you and your trip to Australia. If I had to pick somewhere though, it would be either London or Rome or Paris or......
There's no place like running-without-a-stroller.
There's no place like running-without-a-stroller.
There's no place like running-without-a-stroller.
Where WOULDN'T I go?? Spain? Eastern Europe? Russia? Australia? Africa?? I wouldn't be able to choose just one!
I could go to Rome on the drop of a hat and be sooooo happy, so maybe Rome!
I'm with Shannon... Off to Ireland! I spent a few months backpacking there in my early 20s and long to return to the trails and quiet lanes. Some of the crazy drivers might be risky though...
I would love to explore every nook and cranny in Spain and strive for fluency in Spanish while I'm wandering there too!
I'd be off to run the Tokyo marathon. It's such a crazy city and eastern culture is so different.
Oh goodness, there are soooo many places I want to go! But if I have to pick one, I'd say Colorado. I have always wanted to go there and I bet the scenery is amazing!
I would run off to Palau:
http://www.janesoceania.com/palau/Beach%20of%20Ulimang%20in%20Ngaraard_Palau.jpg
Paradise, if ever I have seen one.
Easter Island!! No - Ireland! Wait - Greece, definitely Greece!!
I think I would run amok in Rome. I LOVE renaissance art work!!
I think I would run in the Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP)in Northern California. I would love to see those huge trees and experience running through such a forest!
The great wall marathon for sure.
I would follow in the footsteps of the Tarahumara runners and go to Copper Canyon in NW Mexico (as described in Christopher McDougall's Born to Run"). These people know how to live -- all they do is party and drink a ton of booze, run all day and eat mashed pinto beans and corn tortillas. Doesn't sound too shabby -- sign me up, I say!
For me it would have to be Alaska. So wild and rugged, and you could spend a lifetime exploring it and still not see everything.
Wandering off into the Himalayas would be my first choice of locales to wander. As a runner who likes to skirt the edges of oxygen deprivation, the high mountains would drain my brain of O2 heightening my delight at the amount of the earth's surface one can drool at from the mountain tops.
At such low oxygen levels, wandering is all I would be capable of, but I would feel as if I had nothing but time to gawk. This is unlike my everyday life which is too full of oxygen,too short on time to gawk and not very drool-worthy.
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