Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Day two of our safari started out again with the special wake-up call of coffee and cookies. I really am training Scott on morning coffee protocol, and the sooner the better. We took our coffee outside and sat on the patio of our little house and listened to something or some things munching and crunching their way through the high grass. Shortly, a family of...
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We saw a beautiful rainbow on the drive to Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. It gave me courage and I almost felt excited about the next ten days. We would fly directly to Kilimanjaro International Airport, a nine hour flight. The flight was smooth, even for my paranoid flyer standards and I got excited when I realized that the huge river below us was the...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
We landed in Amsterdam yesterday morning after ten days on safari in Tanzania. I can’t believe our time in Tanzania is over. The trip was not my idea, and would never have been my idea. I didn’t even want to go, but I came back learning more than I could have ever imagined. There are many parts to this story so I will just start at...
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We have been in Berlin, Germany for two days now and it has been a challenge for me. I am trying to manage my expectations, expectations that I didn’t even know I had. I think those may be the worst kind of expectations. This little side trip to Berlin just kind of happened. Both Scott and Grant wanted to see Berlin and we had some...
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The German Police are really nice and the German village of Alken is home to kind people. How did we discover this? How about a pop quiz? Did we (a) steal something from the grocery store (b) lose our son in the forest (c) get in a traffic accident (d) forget to pay for gas? We decided to take a nice, long 11 km hike...
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I’m not sure what day this happened anymore but Ashley and I were looking at the week ahead for her English lesson. Scott is really into being prepared and looking ahead for the kids’ lessons (sigh) and I am trying very hard to be a team player. I am a procrastinator through and through and had a successful college career being a procrastinator so looking...
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Koblenz literally means “merging of the rivers” and is located at the convergence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers. The city is over 2000 years old and it seemed like a good place to see something interesting and historical and recover from our setbacks. It was also where we would celebrate Scott and Ashley’s birthdays. A few notable things happened during the time we spent...
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Many years ago my husband and I watched the British Open. David Duvall was struggling. The TV commentator had an Australian accent and he was obviously running out of things to say to the world as the wheels fell off this professional golfer’s game. After each attempt the commentator would say something more or less positive but around the fifth attempt he said something that...
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We are having a great time on our adventure. Yes, there has been some stress and learning and even some tears but so far, this adventure is what we had been hoping for. We wanted to experience more of the world and more of each other and we wanted to be able to plan a little and then be in the moment and see what...
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We’re all learning on this adventure, every day. Scott learned that Venice is actually in Italy and not in France. He was showing Grant on Google Maps where we were living in Germany and he happened to notice Venice. He asked me if I knew where Venice was and I said, “Duh, it’s in Italy.” I didn’t really say that, but I did know it...
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