About
Keith Scholfield
This is not a travel blog or a highlight reel. It's a collection of field notes from a life in motion — written while paying closer attention than I once did.
Travel has a way of loosening routines, stripping away convenience, and exposing small truths that are easy to miss at home. Some arrive in extraordinary places. Others surface at ordinary tables, in quiet conversations, or during moments of friction and fatigue.
These notes are not meant to document where we went, but what travel revealed: about time, aging, optionality, discipline, relationships, and the difference between comfort and aliveness.
About This Project
This project began after stepping away from full-time work, but it isn't about retirement. It's about learning how to live well while energy, health, and curiosity are still abundant — and how to notice what deserves carrying forward.
Think of these as working notes rather than finished conclusions. They are written for family first, then for anyone else who finds value in reflecting before the road narrows.
Over time, patterns will emerge. That's intentional. Wisdom, like travel, compounds quietly.
Background
Keith Scholfield spent nearly forty years building — a business career, then five Montessori schools founded and grown with his wife Shirley over nearly two decades. When that chapter ended, he found himself navigating territory no one had prepared him for: what to do when the work that defined you is done.
He writes about that transition. The essays, field notes, and books that followed grew out of extended travel with Shirley — across cities, ship decks, and upcountry roads — paying attention to what the change of context made visible.
Books
