Debby's Departures

17/01/2020

After writing 302 (!) travel blogs since 2007 (!), I have contemplated, and ultimately decided to "retire" from writing any more blogs, and thus not continuing to maintain my website, debbysdepartures.com. In a few days time, my website will no longer be visible on the internet. But it has been a great and fun twelve years of writing and sharing my travel adventures!!! I first started blogging under the name "Tea, Sugar, a Dream" on my friend's website, "Wanderlust and Lipstick." Thank you, Beth Whitman, for this experience! On her website, and under Beth's encouragement, I changed my blog name to Debby's Departures, and eventually learned to maintain my own website. I have all my blogs, along with thousands of photographs, archived in various formats, including four large binders of all my blogs printed. I will continue to travel, just not write about them in the format of blogs. Thank you to those of you who have read my blogs over the years. As I said at the end of each and every blog, "Sweet Travels!"

Sweet Travels!

13/04/2019

Happy Book Day! Ok, I made that up. But I did want to take this opportunity to introduce you again to the informative and inspirational book I wrote about my adventures walking England’s 630-mile South West Coast Path! Here is link to a blog I wrote providing a brief description about my book, with links at the end of the blog to Amazon where the book is available in paperback and eBook versions. I would really love for you all to read it and perhaps be inspired! Thank you!

My Book! - "The Arrow Closest To The Acorn: An American Woman's Walking Adventure on England's 630-Mile South West Coast Path."

18/12/2018

Alright, everyone. It is what you have all been waiting for all year: MY BOOK! Here is the link to Amazon. You may also go to Amazon and search for the title, "The Arrow Closest To The Acorn." Available in both paperback and eBook versions. Perhaps last minute gifts for yourself and all your loved ones to have something to read in the new year! Thank you!!

01/12/2018

After walking over 630 miles, and a year and a half of writing and editing, soon to be available: My book!! This is the front cover. Inside will be 380 pages of my daily stories, 180 photos, and so much more of my adventures walking on England's South West Coast Path!!! Stay tuned for more details very soon!

27/02/2018

Warning: This blog has 33 delicious pictures, and you will be hungry by the end after I tell you about some of my delicious breakfasts, snacks, salads, dinners, and desserts on the South West Coast Path.

26/01/2018

I discovered something completely delicious while walking the South West Coast Path - Cream Tea!

I discovered something completely delicious during my walk on the 630-mile South West Coast Path in England last summer. Cream Tea. No, it is not tea with cream in it. Instead it is tea with a delicious combination of scones, jam, and clotted cream.

20/12/2017

Still writing my South West Coast Path book. In the meantime, here is a blog with a snippet of a chapter from my book!!

Little did I know just how many steps I needed to climb in that 4 miles after having already walked 6 miles on the South West Coast Path.

19/11/2017

I am diligently working on writing my book about my South West Coast Path walk. Here is a shortened sample of one of my chapters, and a beautiful 6.5 mile day.

I have been diligently working on writing my book from my 630-mile South West Coast Path journey. Here's a shortened version of a beautiful 6.5 mile walk.

19/10/2017

Look...Punxsutawney Phil and I won first place in the Groundhog Club's photo contest (again)! Wonder where I will take him next...

18/10/2017

I've been working on writing a book that I am going to publish eventually about my three-month walk on the 630-mile South West Coast Path. In the meantime, here is a blog about my ninth day of walking, and how I managed to turn a 6.5 mile walk into a 12 mile walk.

A beautiful day for what was supposed to be a 6.5 mile walk on the South West Coast Path, but ended up being 12 miles!

20/09/2017

Hello, Debby's Departures fans. I haven't written a blog in quite a while because I was planning, and then walking on a three-month adventure. The 630-mile South West Coast Path in the south west of England. While I will be writing a book about my adventure, here is a blog about the start of my walk, the first day, which for a moment, I thought might be my last day.

At exactly 3:00 pm on Sunday the 4th of June, 2017, England time, I started my 630-mile walk along the South West Coast Path.

31/12/2016

A Bucket List item completed: 28 Lighthouses in Washington State! WoooHooo!!

I have completed a Bucket List item of visiting or seeing a vast majority of the lighthouses in Washington State, 28 of them!

24/12/2016

Not only do I have a love of lighthouses, but I am also very intrigued by the women who cared for the lights back in the days before they became automated. I've read inspiring books, and saw a thought-provoking independent film about a female lighthouse keeper, "To Keep The Light." I feel that these women were brave, strong, and courageous pioneers, who had a lot of heart and spirit.

I am intrigued by these women, female lighthouse keepers, amazed and awestruck by their strength, courage, sacrifices, successes, and desires.

14/12/2016

Ever heard of a "floating lighthouse?" Of the 179 built in the past, only about 15 remain. One of these happens to be in Seattle, so being the lighthouse fan that I am, I made a visit. This blog is about floating lighthouses in general, as well as the Lightship Swiftsure in Seattle.

I feel fortunate that my husband and I live so close to an historic and important piece of history, the floating lighthouse.

03/12/2016

A lighthouse in Olympia, WA that never had any formal lighthouse keepers. Local residents cared for the light instead.

My husband and I took a day trip this past summer to Olympia,Washington just to view the Dofflemeyer Point Light(house).

17/11/2016

The second of four lighthouses in Washington State that are not quite like the typical lighthouse one thinks of when thinking of a lighthouse.

Skunk Bay Lighthouse seems to have had an unusual beginning, unlike the main reason lighthouses are constructed.

05/11/2016

The first of four lighthouses in Washington State that are not quite like the typical lighthouse one thinks of when thinking of a lighthouse.

Today's Ediz Hook Lighthouse looks like a normal house if you did not know it used to be a dwelling for a lighthouse.

21/10/2016

My last blog on the South West Coast Path from our 100 mile journey.

I present my reasons why I truly loved our 100 mile journey in "My Guide to the South West Coast Path." The entire Path is 630 miles.

14/10/2016

Three books that inspired me to walk the South West Coast Path. Especially the adorably illustrated book, "A Brush with the Coast" by Sasha Harding, a woman who walked the entire 630-miles mostly solo (and with her dog).

Three inspiring books about walking the entire 630-mile South West Coast Path, two by men, and the most inspirational written, and illustrated, by a woman.

04/10/2016

World Peace, lighthouses, and other fun images on some kneeling pillows from the churches of the South West Coast Path.

One of my favorite kneeling pillows from the churches of the South West Coast Path is embroidered with the great message above, World Peace.

23/09/2016

Walkers, muddy boots, and dogs welcome at this small hotel along the South West Coast Path. And other random photos.

Enjoy some random photos from the South West Coast Path including a welcome sign, a ferry crossing, and sundial clocks.

08/09/2016

Of course I had to take pictures of windows and doors along the South West Coast Path walk! Turns out many of them had a nautical theme.

I discovered a nautical theme in my photographs of the windows and doors of the South West Coast Path.

28/08/2016

Navigation along the South West Coast Path includes following acorn and arrow symbols. It reminded me of following arrows and scallop shells on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. And what was fun was that a few miles of the SWCP that my husband and I walked on was even part of a Camino route that was in England!

Follow the directional acorns and arrows of the South West Coast Path to navigate your way.

15/08/2016

My husband and I visited no less than 9 churches during our 100 miles of walking on the South West Coast Path. My favorite was the one at a beach.

Visiting no less than nine churches on the South West Coast Path, feeling emotions as I read the gravestones.

04/08/2016

Visiting the most westerly and most southerly points in England...one in the fog...as we walked on the South West Coast Path.

Seeing what we could see at the most westerly Land's End and most southerly Lizard Point of the South West Coast Path in England.

21/07/2016

Walking, the coast, and nine lighthouses in 100 miles. Awesome!

In our 100 miles of walking, we saw no less than nine lighthouses on the South West Coast Path!