{Wanderlusting}

I might have made up that word; Wanderlusting.
Wanderlust : Strong longing for or impulse toward wandering.

Yep.
A strong longing for... that's me.
And that's how I feel lately... Actually that's how I have been feeling for quite some time.
I feel like the older I get the more I feel this way... which is kind of weird because one might think you would feel this way when you
were younger and were actually able to do more wandering.
Right?

But anyway.
This is kinda what I dream of.
Of going... travelling... just wandering really.
By myself, with the kids, with my family, with my friends... all of it and any of it really.
Just to go.
To explore and adventure.
To see.

My longing to see and explore and for adventure is nothing outrageous or exotic really.
I am content with wandering an hour away from home, or three hours away from home if that is all that I can squeeze into my life right now, but I definitely dream of bigger trips and adventures, too.
I dream of exploring new cities and States with the kids, of exploring little towns and big towns and all that they are made up of.

I am currently daydreaming of a trip to Nashville and am working on a post all about what I want to do and and see there...
I think it's gonna be a pretty long list!
Please let me know if you are familiar with Nashville or have any suggestions for me.
Daydreaming is really kinda fun.
And Nashville is close enough that I could actually pull that off.... it would be an awesome Road Trip adventure for sure.

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Where are you daydreaming of visiting?
Where would you Road Trip to?
Who would you go with?

*All these photos were taken in St. Louis, my favorite close-ish place to adventure to, by the way.

Little(And Big) Adventures

Oh. Sigh.
Just look at these photos and try to tell me that they don't make you want to jump on a plane or in a car and just go somewhere...
A N Y W H E R E .

{ all images via Kris Atomic}

Can you even stand all of these gorgeous pictures? 

Go see more on her blog as well as her beautiful illustrations + her lovely shop, that little blog of hers is so inspiring, I just wanna jump right into it! 

The older I get the more I long for more adventures- in the form of trips and get-aways and seeing brand new places.
You would think that maybe this would be something I would have had when I was younger, single, without a family... but no, it just
hits me now more than ever, in the last couple of years.


I'm dreaming of big, long, far-away trips... short, simple, close-to-home day trips.... all of it.
Pretty much anywhere that is away and different and new.
This year I plan on doing more of this and intend on taking some day trips by myself with just my camera, because that sounds like an
absolutely perfect way to spend a day to me.
Traveling(anywhere) more + making plans for future trips is a big GOAL of mine for 2014.

So, where would you go if you had....

A day?

A week?

Two weeks?

A tiny budget?

No budget?

{ via The Fresh Exchange }

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Hope you have a fantastic Monday.... where ever the day takes you!

Come back tomorrow for Coffee with me...
I think it's time for the first Virtual Coffee date of 2014.
You can read more about Virtual Coffee here.

And you can even wear your pajamas!

St. Louis :: Soulard Farmer's Market

Good morning and Happy Tuesday.
I thought I would share a few pictures from our weekend in St. Louis for my BIG Birthday...Yep, I really, really did turn 40 on Sunday...
Still having a hard time believing that one, and no, I'm not totally ignoring the fact that I am now officially OLD as of the weekend...
I'm still working on that post.
I think it might take a big, fat glass of wine and a quiet evening to write it though first.

This was our first stop Saturday morning, the Soulard Farmer's Market.
This is one of my favorite places and one of the coolest places to be with your camera.
It was really crowded so getting shots was a little hard, but wow, I love all of the food and people and colors.
So pretty and so much fun,  and the perfect way to spend the first few hours away for my Birthday weekend.

You totally want to drive to St. Louis to go to the Soulard Farmer's Market now... don't you?
It's definitely worth the trip, I promise.

Our trip tot the Market was followed by some shopping and lunch at the coolest + yummiest place ever, more on that later though....
but right now I am heading back tot he couch to finish off Season One of Magic City, the only good thing about being sick.
Hope you have a great Tuesday!