Adventuriety
I may be beating a dead horse here, but forgive me as this is still in the time frame of my forty-eight hour mind warp. We left Lake Eyasi and drove back through the town of Karatu and to our next lodge, Gibb’s Farm, which is a short 5km outside of the town. There is a lot to see driving from lodge to lodge even if the Safari...
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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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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
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 / Inspirietry
Miscommunication can be blissful. I had profound realization of this nugget of wisdom on our hike today plus learned a few other good little tidbits. We had a great thirty-six hour mini road trip this weekend. It was fun and we saw some new sights and currency, learned a few things and ate a lot of non-husband approved food. We are getting closer to daily...
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Inspirietry
I saw another rainbow today. It was just as beautiful and just as mysterious as the one that I’d seen in Oberammergau last week, but this one, I found it in an “Antiquitäten & Raritäten” shop in Rorschach, Switzerland. We started out yesterday in Oberammergau with the decision to drive to Lichtenstein for lunch. I don’t really know why, I had mentioned Lichtenstein to Scott...
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Adventuriety
Our phones are not really working. Scott has an expensive international plan so we can be contacted in an emergency and I put a European SIM chip in my phone when we got here and it works intermittently. So, we had no way of researching what to do in Vaduz because we only planned lunch. Not ready for our adventure to end, we used the...
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Adventuriety
Today was a good day. It started in Germany with a chocolate croissant, and ended toasting with some very nice people at a sailing club in Switzerland while the kids swam in the rain. Have I mentioned that we are not really planners? We woke up early this morning, Sunday morning, and our first full day off since we started home school. By the time...
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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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