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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Adventuriety
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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Adventuriety
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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Adventuriety
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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Adventuriety
We love Oberammergau. It is a beautiful little village near fabulous hiking trails. The weather is nice, especially for us rain-starved Californians. It usually rains here at least a few times a week, complete with lightning and thunder, another treat since we don’t get much of nature’s lightshow in our hometown. We love all of the weather and the sunshine too. When it’s not raining...
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Recuperiety
We all went to Wellenberg today for some easy on the joints, water fun. The forecast called for a hot day and we thought it would be a perfect treat for the afternoon. The kids started online school two days ago and the learning curve has been steep. There is a lot to learn about just navigating the site and how the whole online school...
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Adventuriety
One of the things that I love about traveling is that it turns your brain on. Anyone who has ever traveled anywhere and I am including any destination other than sitting in your own living room knows that travel can be exhausting because of all kinds of reasons but most of all it is the “needing to figure out things” that is the exhausting part....
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Adventuriety
Do not impede riders in front of you by going too slowly. That is what RULE NUMBER 5 of the Alpine Coaster stated at the top of Kolbensattel near Oberammergau, Germany, as we waited to board our personal alpine coasters. My stomach had started turning over on the way up riding the chairlift. Gazing out at the beautiful views of mountains and valleys, green and...
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