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August 2026

Sober Travel

The August issue is “Sober Travel!” featuring fun, helpful stories by AA members about getting out and going places in sobriety, and the many ways we stay sober while on the road and in the air.

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“I don’t believe I drank to get drunk, but always to seek in the next drink that peace for which a sick soul seems to thirst.”

Los Angeles, Calif., August 1965, “The Spiritual Kind of Thirst”, Spiritual Awakenings

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No More Secrets

As a child, I liked to organize my dolls. I would carefully put them in a place on my shelf, and there they would stay for years. To drive me nuts, my friends would move them around.

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Big Move, Big Changes

I got sober in New York City. After almost 15 years of hard drinking, by the grace of God I landed in some downtown Manhattan AA groups. The year 1985 was an amazing time to get sober there.

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Embracing the The Long Haul

When I got sober in 1986, AA had only been in our town for about eight or nine years.

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Safe at 30,000 Feet

I came into AA as an agnostic—and I was more than willing to prove it, even though I didn’t fully understand what an agnostic was.

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22 Months and Counting

I really did intend to have my last drink on September 7, 2022, but my Higher Power had different plans for me. That morning I was arrested at my mom’s house for an outstanding warrant.

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God Took Me Down

Like so many I have known in the program, I sat on Step One for a long time. OK, I was powerless over alcohol, and my life was unmanageable. Got it.

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Grapevine Daily Quote July 15

“I don’t believe I drank to get drunk, but always to seek in the next drink that peace for which a sick soul seems to thirst.”

Los Angeles, Calif., August 1965, “The Spiritual Kind of Thirst”, Spiritual Awakenings

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