Category: Personal
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Six Months in Seattle: A Little Recap
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For those of you that have been here a while, you might remember our monthly recaps from our 12 months of travel. We put that series on hold when our travels went on hold due to the pandemic, but we figured it would be fun to bring it up as…
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Finishing What We Started
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After a year of enjoying the sunshine of San Diego, we are finally finishing our road trip up the Pacific Coast. Our initial road trip plan in 2020 was to make it to the Pacific Northwest and find a new place to call home. The pandemic shut down so many…
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Love Letter to San Diego
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With COVID, a two week visit to America’s finest city turned into our new full time residence and it took a while to find out if I love San Diego. Such a strange year with lots of unknowns. Now that we are almost a full nine months in, I think…
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It’s Official
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I’ve spent the last few weeks just waiting until one more thing was finalized before I shared a current life update. But that one thing would happen and I would think of another and another. Maybe I just couldn’t quite process that this adventure around the globe was definitely going…
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This Wasn’t the Plan
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One year ago today, we had handed in the keys to our lovely little south Minneapolis bungalow and were ready to check into our flight. No more seemingly endless winters. Our phones were cleared of all work email accounts and we were officially jobless. This was a moment that we…
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Sanity During Isolation: 12 Ways We Stay Entertained
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We are officially on Day 6 of self isolation/quarantine/distance/sheltering in place/safer at home – whatever the government officials are calling it these days. Eggs are the only staple food we are completely unable to find at the moment, but we have at least 8 rolls of TP so we are…
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Social Distancing, Kindness and Staying Entertained
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I’m writing this from the dining room table of a beautiful bungalow in San Diego. We are currently dog/house sitting for a wonderful couple that is vacationing in Central America for two weeks. Our plan for our time back in the United States was to use Trusted Housesitters to get…
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#WhyIMarch (from the Archives)
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We started this website for our travels and there were a few posts that got lost in the transition of domain names. This was one of them. As I am watching the presidential primary heat up, the impeachment trial on TV and women continue to march for the 4th year…
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24 Countries, 1 Year
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One year, twenty four countries. It’s been a wild ride. We wanted to do a quick recap of the places we’ve been, so we borrowed an idea from our kiwi friends. Simple and quick – we are giving you a quick overview of the countries we’ve visited and some of…
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Christmas Card 2019
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Mail is a wonderful thing when you see those handwritten addresses instead of the usual typed bank statement or utility bill. Christmas card season is the best time of year for the mailbox. Since we weren’t really able to pull it together and mail out cards, we are sharing this…