Tag: travel
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The Great Road Trip
THE GREAT ROAD TRIP Fourteen years ago today, I was on my way home from The Great Road Trip. In 2010, through a combination of circumstances I will never really understand, my friend Kylie and I both managed to take two weeks off work to go on a road trip across the country. I drove…
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Family Values
FAMILY VACATION I’m on vacation this week, bumming around the beaches of North Carolina with my immediate family. This is an annual occurrence, and we have rhythms and patterns of behavior that we follow. But this year, my high school best friend and her family also joined us. And the whole experience has me contemplating…
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Buying Souvenirs
I used to travel quite a bit for work, both domestically and abroad, and I loved it. Of course, it got tiring, but new places and new people excite me. After a few years of travel drought, I recently traveled to New Zealand (it was amazing) and the trip brought up a familiar problem from…
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Planes and Boats
Oh, hello! My apologies for not dropping by with a few words last week. I was traveling unexpectedly and didn’t have the wherewithal to put my thoughts down for you. But I missed you; I can only assume you missed me terribly as well. Oh, while I have you – a quick announcement that I…