Adventuriety
We went to Copenhagen for Christmas for a lot of reasons but the best reason of all was probably because if you can visit three countries in a trip instead of one, why not? There were other reasons too, like I had wanted to visit Copenhagen in person ever since I visited with Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown a few years ago. Copenhagen is after all, the...
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Adventuriety / Domesticiety
Our year of traveling the world is over and the kids are back in a “brick and mortar” school. We’ve been home for about three months and I just finished the last of the my travel blogs about all of our activities and what I think about them, but Scott has been telling me that I should write about the “other stuff,” the more reflective...
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Adventuriety
Traveling can help you get to know yourself for sure. This “last trip” on our year long adventure was a point of contention. I wanted Iceland, Norway and Ireland, places that sounded good in the hot summer months and all places I had been looking forward to visiting. Besides, I am Norwegian on my father’s side and I wanted to visit Norway. Conversely, my family...
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Inspirietry
Daisy and I have decided to limit the nights we stay in hotels. We have elected to setup shop in local apartments where we can spread out. The kids can sit around the table like at home and complete school work. I can cook in the kitchen and Daisy can do whatever she does. She is pretty good at it I think. As...
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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 / Inspirietry
Our second day in the Cusco area started early with a 7:30 am pickup for a full day of both archaeological sights as well as cultural stops and everything in between which is going to make for a long blog. Luis was our guide again and he was bound and determined to make up for our late start the day before. He told us, “I...
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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
There is a lot to see in New Zealand, so much to see in fact that you just have to accept that you won’t see a fraction of it, even at a hectic pace. You can hit the highlights of course, but even the highlights are vast. There is also a lot of driving to be done on the two island country that is a...
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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 / Inspirietry
I am definitely growing this year. Of course, you think, but to me it is not always evident. I spend a lot of time either catching up, scrambling up, holding on, looking away or biting my tongue and I sometimes resort to cursing or crying (alone of course because they are far ahead, re-climbing the hard part for fun and waiting for me). Don’t misunderstand,...
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