Tag: behind the blog
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A Something of Nothing
Things have been a little quiet over here with us lately. Well, quiet in the sense of taking off for adventures here and there anyway. Behind the scenes it has been busy and slightly chaotic, on top of just being too hot and sticky lately to really want to get out much. Brad has been…
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Moments & Misadventures :: Scout the Coonhound
Instead of sharing a place or experience, I thought I should introduce you to one of my travel companions who has been with me on many adventures over the years. If you have been following me for a while you have probably seen pictures here and there of my dog Scout. Scout was only 6…
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A Weekend in the Appalachian Mountains {Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, & Kentucky}
Things have been a little crazy for me lately. Amid a terrible heat wave that I was sure would kill me off, I spent a week welcoming our new international students to the university with a lot of activities and workshops and tours that I was in charge of. We also celebrated my daughter’s birthday…
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A Wonderful Array of Cultures
The last few weeks have been pretty packed full of multicultural activities and interactions for me. I was amazed as I sat back today and thought about all the different places that I have vicariously traveled to in a short amount of time. The first of these came with a dinner invitation from our neighbors…
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Please Hold For the Next Available Deity of Passports
Sometimes the gods of travel smile down on you and everything works out seamlessly, and sometimes it seems that you are calling when they are not in the office as the problems stack up. The later is where we have been at lately so please forgive me for a little bit of a ranting post.…
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I’d rather be in Munich…
You know that feeling when the big trip you’ve been anticipating for months gets canceled the day before you were suppose to leave? Yeah, that’s where we’re at right now. We’ve been getting ready to leave for Germany to spend this next week in the winter wonders of Munich. But then the news came that…
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Cheers and Fears on 39
And so today I begin the last year of my 30’s! And I’m happy to say that finally the leaves are starting to change and it got cool enough to pull out a sweater. So I would say this day is off to a pretty good start! It’s been a little surreal for me today…
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To Israel…with a sigh of relief
Months ago I announced that I was going to Israel for a study abroad….since then there has been a question of if we would be able to go or not. So we quietly kept providing the documents requested from our professor and preparing as best we could for the amazing opportunity that it would be…
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One Year In Tennessee
It’s so hard to believe that we’ve now been in Tennessee for one year. When we moved from Florida up here, the craziness of Covid was in full swing which made the moving process more difficult than we expected. And then we arrived, excited to be in Tennessee, but immediately crestfallen at our apartment that…