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Why Spontaneous Travel Planning Leads to the Best Adventures

March 29, 2025February 23, 2025 by handcraftedadventure

Driving along the Oregon Coast

Categories Travel and Adventure, Road Trips & Planning Tags everyday adventure, explore locally, hidden gems, intentional living, spontaneous travel

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For people who want to feel genuinely excited about what comes next — not a new life, just a fuller one.

We're Krista and Tom — 59 and 61. We started this in 2020 and we're figuring out how to live fully in the years before retirement and well beyond it.

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For people who want to feel genuinely excited about what comes next — not a new life, just a fuller one. We write about everyday adventure, movement that supports real life, and what it looks like to stop drifting and start designing the next chapter deliberately.

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Krista & Tom — Krista is 58, Tom is 60. We started this in 2020 and we're figuring out how to live fully — right up to retirement and well beyond it.

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