Tag: Travel
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Friday Five – week of 7/25
Hello!! I’m almost a month into my unemployment yet feel busier than ever – which, I’m quickly seeing, is going to be the trap. I have all these plans for things I want to accomplish during my time off but if I fill every time slot with minor errands and tasks, I might not get…
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Friday Five – week of 6/20
It’s my birthday week. I turned 53. So a lot of this week was spent indulging and celebrating and also resting while trying to not consume too much news – which is a dance. A lot of what you will find in the five this week are things I consumed this week for the special…
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Friday Five (week of May 2)
(1) Rice dogs (aka Korean corn dogs) I had my first rice dog a few years ago in Madison, Wisconsin. I’d heard about these corndog-style treats for a while. However, I never had access to one until a few years ago during a family visit. We visited the Global Market and Food Hall on the…
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Iceland Part I: Reykjavik, Day 1
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we had a narrow window for this trip and it happened to be the peak season for going to Iceland. Late June / early July is the best chance for good weather. It’s Summer on the island. It also means no darkness which is great for exploration…
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Another trip of a lifetime
It wasn’t supposed to happen so quickly after Patagonia. We had both savings and vacation time to rebuild. But when adventure and opportunity called, well, we couldn’t pass it up. The circumstances were that the crew we met and immediately bonded with in Peru and then met up with again, two years later, in Chile…
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