Travel has always been a passion of mine, I never feel so alive then when I’m going somewhere new.
Traveling the world together
Work hard, play hard. Stephen and I had an amazing life together, we worked together and traveled all over together for 30 years. We were inseparable. That all ended in 2018 with horrible cancer. Everything changed. When your life as you knew it is over you find out who are truly your friends. You discover that people you thought were family weren’t. You sure discover who you can turn to over and over again when the grief has to get out.
My travel blog had been a fun happy hobby and the loss of Stephen was too sad to even think about it for a long time. The song that was my mantra was The Great Pretender. As the many months marched forward there were periods where I realized with an epiphany Hey, I feel happy! I sought beautiful distractions, and the escape of travel helped ease the pain.
Life is for the Living
Life is for the living. It’s to be cherished and appreciated. As the years went by I was amazed to find love in my life again. Love in your life is a blessing, a precious gift that doesn’t diminish or change the love that I’ll always have for Stephen. I think about him every day.
About this blog…
After so many years passed my original blog at RebeccaSnyder.com couldn’t be updated to the latest WordPress and plugins. It was still functioning and nostagically I didn’t want to let it go, I’d had a lot of fun writing articles about our travels. It was a way to document our adventures, share destinations and itineraries, and I loved writing and creating something. I was rather on the fence about taking the time to rework it to the latest WordPress version, but one day I decided to dive in and see what I could do to update it. Hobbies are for yourself after all!
Techie stuff: I originally used Xampp, a web server platform for website development, on my laptops fot the site. The WordPress running on the live site is 4.6.29 and I was able to update my local site on my laptop to 5.1.19. But that was as far as I could go with the Xampp platform version I was using. I tried later versions of Xampp but gave up when there were too many errors related to PHP version changes. Next step – a new WP installation and theme and a new web server development platform, WAMP server, which I like much better for multiple website virtual hosts than Xampp.
In the meantime, I started a new travel blog at Travelknowing.com. I didn’t want to write on this blog any longer, this one is frozen in time and memory with my last article in 2018 – The Best Man I’ve Ever Known.
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The Great Pretender
(Freddie Mercury cover)
Oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Pretending I’m doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I’m lonely but no one can tell
Oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to dream all alone
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can’t conceal
Oh, oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around
Yeah, oh…
Too real when I feel what my heart can’t conceal
Oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re
Pretending that you’re still around