Intro: If you repeat doing the same thing, you will get the same results. Our life is so full of uncertainties that once we establish something semi-stable we hardly want to change. But there incredible new things we are not aware of them yet. We won’t experience them unless we change the course. For any change we want to know the ultimate destination, but how often we get the ultimate destination right?

Over the last few years, my winter trips constitute of long and strenuous road trips. Driving thousands of miles and covering many states. This winter I packed the improved gear of the same idea, but I felt something is holding me. There are more uncertainties in my life these days and the good old easy nature exploration isn’t doing the trick. I wanted to do something different.

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Part I- Short camping: I spent a few days in north Georgia, in the southern Appalachian foothills.

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Sewing projects:

Many new projects:

• New rain mittens
• Improved the pyramid tent I sewed a few years ago and tested the bug net-tent.
• Folding sleeping mat for Twyla.
• Lens cases
• Sleeping quilt!

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