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Three adventures, three late-in-life leaps — and a whole lot of heart.

Keely Byrne Takes A Bike Ride

Mizen Head to Malin Head the Extra Super Long Way

Keely Byrne may not know much about bikes, but she’s not about to let that stop her from attempting to ride the entire 1,500 miles of Ireland’s rugged and windy Wild Atlantic Way from Mizen Head in the south to Malin Head in the north. Armed with blind courage, perseverance, a sense of humor, and very little knowledge about the clunky beast of a bicycle beneath her, Keely starts pedaling in the name of adventure. Endless hills are climbed and head winds battled as she slogs up the coast wondering why in the world she’s putting herself through this. Somewhere along the way, the significance of her oh-so-late-in-life ADHD/autism spectrum diagnosis starts to become clear.

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If I Could Go Back

Inspiration strikes when Penelope Fitzsimmons finds a second edition Lonely Planet guide to Costa Rica from 1997 buried at the bottom of a box marked “Misc.” in her parents’ attic. Many years have passed since she thought about the trip she never got to take, and finally the stars have aligned — she just lost her job and can afford to take a little time off. Pining for the pre-internet days of her youth, Penelope decides to take the trip with a serious caveat: She’ll travel as if it’s still 1997. No social media, no internet, no rental car, no itinerary. She’ll use the out-dated book as her guide and keep her phone off the entire time. Her friends and family think she’s nuts, wondering why she can’t just read a book on the beach and call it good, but Penelope cannot wait to go offline and into the jungle.

 

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The Majestic Moose Vintage Camper Company

Proud New Yorker Abby Weston has no idea what to do when she’s told she has inherited a cabin and a few acres of land in the Rocky Mountains from her recently deceased great aunt Mari. She’s never even been to Colorado, nevermind thought about a life in the mountains. Yet nature beckons and she is surprised by what she finds: a quirky community of people who adored Mari and know much more about Abby than she could have expected, a rough and wild landscape full of unfamiliar noises in the night that somehow feels welcoming, and a mysterious vintage camper buried in a ravine under decades of branches and debris. Does it hold answers to the meaning of life? Will she scurry back to the city or give this new pace of life a chance?

 

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