Road Trips, Parks and Places to See, Making a Living Remotely, Van/RV Life, and How Wealth is Built – and Lost
By Rachel Puryear Among the great many horrors and looming threats to democracy unfolding in the USA these days, are painful cuts to funding many programs and entities beneficial to the public, including our treasured and amazing national parks. If you love these parks, you may be wondering how you can help them, and desire…
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By Rachel Puryear Urban parks make for very special places within a city, whereby residents can get out and enjoy nature, right in (or near) their own neighborhoods. San Mateo, a small city about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose, boasts its own big urban park. There’s lots to do here for the whole…
By Rachel Puryear Hi folks, your Free Range Life host has some big personal life events going on. Accordingly, I am unable to put forth the usual kind of content for a short while. However, here are some pictures of road trippers with their pets along for the ride for you to enjoy, and hopefully…
By Rachel Puryear San Francisco, California, the City by the Bay, is a major city known for many things – arts and sciences, diversity, great food, culture and progressive attitudes, and it also features lots of stunning natural beauty. Even within this major urban city, there are plenty of places to enjoy the great outdoors,…
By Rachel Puryear As you’ve driven along highways, you’ve probably noticed that each highway is known by a unique number – you can cruise I-5 near the West Coast between the Mexican and Canadian borders, ride I-80 from the San Francisco Bay Area to New Jersey, drive I-95 between northern Maine and southern Florida, and…
By Rachel Puryear This is not a post I ever wanted to have to write, but it’s nevertheless much needed. As a lover of freedom, autonomy, and travel; the threat that a fairly small but emboldened loud, hateful, and violent-minded segment of the U.S. population poses to the rest of us has become an increasing…
Read more Protecting Yourself Against Extremists While Traveling the USA
By Rachel Puryear On the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area region, is the charming small town of Pescadero, along the ocean. One of the great gems found on the outskirts of this town is Butano State Park – acres of trail through gorgeous, quiet, humid forests kept moist, and often draped in layers…
By Rachel Puryear People often dream of traveling “when they’re older,” usually because they assume they’ll need to first achieve certain milestones in life – finishing education, establishing a career, making a certain amount of money, becoming sophisticated enough, finding a partner, raising a family, and perhaps even retiring; before they can freely hit the…
By Rachel Puryear If you thought enchanted forests were something found only in fairy tales, you probably haven’t been to Huddart Park (and the several other gorgeous parks found in Woodside). Shaded by plenty of towering trees, often shrouded in fog from the nearby ocean, covered in a reddish-brown floor from the many redwood trees,…
By Rachel Puryear Do you love to stroll around a large garden, with a bounty of fresh, beautiful flowers and trees? If so, then Gamble Garden – nestled in the affluent city of Palo Alto, and in the heart of the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley – is a perfect place to visit and enjoy, and…
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