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  • Habits to Bring Home (The Invisible Souvenirs)

    There are lots of reasons a person may decide to take a trip- scenic reasons, food reasons, work reasons, family reasons, adventure reasons, shake-things-up reasons, rest and self-care reasons. But whenever I leave my daily routine and later return home… Continue reading

    Habits to Bring Home (The Invisible Souvenirs)

  • Travel Lies I Was Told Before Having Kids

    Motherhood is talked about with a divided timeline- your life BEFORE becoming a mom, and your life AFTER you become a mom. For some things this is true: anatomically your body is different having carried and delivered a child (or… Continue reading

    Travel Lies I Was Told Before Having Kids

  • Colombia Part Dos

    The next 8 days were a blurry of wake up at 4 am, eat breakfast, ride off into the sunrise with Pacho, fish until about 12, eat lunch, crush a beer, sleep for two hours, fish again until sunset, eat… Continue reading

  • Colombia, the beginning

    This morning, I woke up and decided to drink my coffee that I had purchased in Salento, Colombia. The coffee was bought straight from the farm, and I can vividly remember seeing the farmer package it up. I decided to… Continue reading

  • Jordan Part 1

    Jordan was one of the countries where I didn’t expect much, but was extremely surprised. We took a bus from Nazareth to Amman, and started our Jordan trip here. I would say that there are not as many touristic sites… Continue reading

  • Israel

    This seems a little late to write about our trip this year to Israel and Jordan, but over the past 9 months, we have been able to reflect over the trip. The memories keep flooding back about our 2 week… Continue reading

  • 2018- a look at life

      2018 has been a transformation year for me. There has been a lot of good, but a lot of bad as well. The bad not really visible, but underlying things that needed to be fixed.  It took me a… Continue reading

  • India Part II

    We flew into Varanasi at 10 PM at night, and immediately caught a cab into town. We learned that the cabs could not actually drive to where our guest house was located. We were told the street had been blocked… Continue reading

  • INDIA… part 1

      There is no easy way to start on our India trip, but to say that it was a blast. The most common question that we got asked before we went was “Why India”? India is not at the top… Continue reading

  • Our first Christmas

    Four years ago today, Morgan and I were hunkered down in the mining town of Reefton, NZ for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Reefton is a town surrounded by gold mines, and the people who live in this city are… Continue reading