Adventuriety
I have been behind on my blogging more than usual after this past South America jaunt and have spent days at home catching up on Peru, Galapagos Islands and Aruba. It’s not unusual for me to lag behind, but it has been much worse lately and when I finally caught up to our latest adventure I happily reported to Scott who had been asking me on...
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Adventuriety
Every time and I mean every time Scott and I start trip planning he happens upon a remote location in the country we are visiting that involves trekking, you know long hikes and tents. My usual response is positive, “Okay, I’ll do it. It sounds like an experience.” All the while I have my fingers crossed behind my back, my body is already aching at the...
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Adventuriety
Scott said that it doesn’t matter where you go. It matters where you go. I don’t want to be vulgar but I went somewhere today that made my butt crack sweat. Are you intrigued? Usually when the going gets rough my knees sweat, but today I reached an entirely new level. Scott said that I crossed my threshold for fear and this adventure was all...
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Adventuriety
We stepped onto our fifth continent (counting North America) since beginning our journey in July late the night before, after two long days of travel; drive to Los Angeles the night before for an early morning flight, Los Angeles to Atlanta, a three hour layover and then a six hour flight to Lima, Peru. We spent the night at a hotel across the street from...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
On that fateful hike over a year ago when Scott and I decided to dust off our dream of a year of travel with our kids and actually attempt to make it a reality, our conversation went in many directions with a lot of interrupting and laughing and excitement about the adventure that might be waiting for us. One of things we really laughed about was...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Oberammergau, Germany, has forever spoiled us in the cute little village department and we continuously seek its charm in small towns on our travels. We decided to spend four nights in Hokitika, a tiny beach enclave on the West Coast of New Zealand, and a name I cannot seem to spell, no matter how many times I type it and maybe that is because I cannot pronounce it correctly either....
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Adventuriety
The kids are enrolled in an online school and part of the curriculum is P.E. which I am in charge of (along with History and English). We have been able to stay very active with a lot of hiking and walking and an occasional swim or bike ride but lately the kids have added their own twist to our walks, parkour. Parkour is a discipline developed in...
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Adventuriety
We took a six hour bike tour of Appian Way in Rome on Sunday. Rome is a smorgasbord of sights and sounds and things to do and it becomes overwhelming after a while of navigating and learning about stuff on your own so I decided we needed a tour of some sort. I was actually looking for a tour of Vatican City when I stumbled...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
We drove for a long time today. It was the fourth day of our safari, and I was feeling a little calmer about the whole experience. We had all made it out of Tarangire alive and I even had the frivolous thought of hoping to see a Cheetah before we left Tanzania. I didn’t know it at the time but I would spend a lot...
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Domesticiety
We have been home for a little over 24 hours and it is nice. My bed feels really good and I was able to wash every scrap of the stinky laundry. It was a treat yesterday to wear clothes that I had not seen for eight weeks. Scott told me that I looked cute; I think it was just because I wasn’t wearing the same...
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