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Winter Epic Adventure Plan
One of my personal ways of knowing if my life is going “according to plan” is the answer to Where Is Acacia, hence the name of my blog. (The more wildly fascinating the answer, the better)....
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Adventure Is On The Horizon. Again.
Greetings from Alaska, faithful readers. The Antarctic Saga is officially finished. Back to real life, and an abbreviated version of the events that have transpired in the meantime! First, I went to...
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Preparing For The Himalayas
The clock is ticking. My plane south leaves in less than five days! Realistically, most flights I take from here head south, away from all things permanently frozen, but the beginning of this trip is...
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Acceptance to RISD: In Which The Impossible Happens
Since the main purpose of this blog is to keep distant friends and relatives updated about my life, it is time to unveil my latest plan for the next couple years. No plans to travel anywhere exotic or...
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The Going Gets Good
My dad always says that “what you’re looking for is looking for you,” and in the recent years I have found that statement to be especially true. I feel like I’m always actively searching for the next...
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Living on the sea, with the currents, with the tide.
Often, when I talk about my childhood, I find it easier to make generalizations regarding the extraordinary level of adventure it involved. “I pretty much grew up in an airplane,” for example, is...
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Wind and Chasing the Horizon
One day that song comes on at random. You know, that song, the one that stirs your heart and you feel the currents of time coursing around you and you know, things are about to change again, as they...
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Admiration & Looking Forward
One night Spencer stops by our little room. Katie is laying in a mess of quilts and pillows, on her computer. They are talking, we are talking, and Katie’s hand brushes the strings of her guitar...
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Arctic Dreams: Making It Through the Fulbright Application Process
For the past year, I’ve carried Barry Lopez’s book Arctic Dreams with me wherever I go. I read it slowly over the course of last summer, one chapter at a time. Re-reading, taking notes, thinking about...
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Into Indigo: Making the Impossible a Reality
There are certain times when one’s momentum in the flow of the universe feels more apparent. The way I see it, we are all hurtling towards our own destinies at unfathomable velocities, but it is only...
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