While in Atlanta we had the opportunity to visit the World Peace Cafe. The Cafe is a vegetarian/vegan restaurant owned and operated by the Kadampa Meditation Center of Georgia. It is staffed by volunteers that share the vision of compassionate living through vegetarianism and meditation. The day we joined them they had the disposition of […]
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Happy Winter Solstice. To me the Solstice represents the death of the old creating space and light for the birth of the new. The sloughing away of negative ideas, experiences and fears. I am writing to you from the passenger seat of the KIA. We are driving South in a blinding snow storm. We have […]
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Will Travel for Vegan Food. If you have not heard about this cool vegan project before, it is likely going to pique your sense of culinary and travel adventure as it did mine. It is a brilliant idea and the person behind the whole concept hopped in to share with Exploits today in this guest […]
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I found this article on This Dish is Veg and thought it was really fascinating so wanted to share. I have to admit I was (am) envious when I read about Kristin’s plans. How exciting!! Maybe if I ask nicely she would come to Michigan for some vegan cuisine and Exploits conversation. I will keep […]
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Travel experiences in this vegan journey have been “spotty” at times as Sandy and I have ventured into different cities and circumstances. I’ve shared some of our humorous and sometimes bittersweet experiences in earlier posts. After a few attempts, I’ve learned some staple tricks of the trade to plan ahead while traveling, to help set […]
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Last September I wrote a post called Always Be Prepared. It was about a situation we found ourselves in at a family funeral in Toronto when we were stuck for hours and hours without a vegan morsel anywhere in sight. We ended up satiating our hunger with red wine until it was time to leave […]
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Evidently the most delicious Thai food we had in Canada had an unwanted ingredient. Sandy got it first, than about six hours later I had all the symptoms of the worst food poisoning ever. I am home now after spending five of the longest hours of my life in the back seat of a tiny […]
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We are still in Toronto. Nourishing ourselves did not go as smoothly yesterday as it had the day before. We went 11.5 hours with only cut fruit and hot tea. It felt like a fast without any emotional preparation. I was so hungry that I thought my stomach would begin to eat itself from the […]
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We are travelling right now in Toronto, Canada for a funeral. We were visiting with family and planning to go out to dinner with Sandy’s parents and five members of her extended family, including three children under the age of 8. As I sat in our room gulping gin and tonics I thought,”Where in the world are we going […]
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Sandy and I were travelling with a friend of ours over the weekend to the lovely west coast of Michigan and stayed at a B&B. Last week (6/10) I posted about how happy I was because I had worked out the vegan thing with the B&B ahead of time. They would provide a vegan breakfast […]
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