Adventuriety
The German Police are really nice and the German village of Alken is home to kind people. How did we discover this? How about a pop quiz? Did we (a) steal something from the grocery store (b) lose our son in the forest (c) get in a traffic accident (d) forget to pay for gas? We decided to take a nice, long 11 km hike...
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Adventuriety
I’m not sure what day this happened anymore but Ashley and I were looking at the week ahead for her English lesson. Scott is really into being prepared and looking ahead for the kids’ lessons (sigh) and I am trying very hard to be a team player. I am a procrastinator through and through and had a successful college career being a procrastinator so looking...
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Adventuriety
Koblenz literally means “merging of the rivers” and is located at the convergence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers. The city is over 2000 years old and it seemed like a good place to see something interesting and historical and recover from our setbacks. It was also where we would celebrate Scott and Ashley’s birthdays. A few notable things happened during the time we spent...
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Adventuriety
Many years ago my husband and I watched the British Open. David Duvall was struggling. The TV commentator had an Australian accent and he was obviously running out of things to say to the world as the wheels fell off this professional golfer’s game. After each attempt the commentator would say something more or less positive but around the fifth attempt he said something that...
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Adventuriety
We are having a great time on our adventure. Yes, there has been some stress and learning and even some tears but so far, this adventure is what we had been hoping for. We wanted to experience more of the world and more of each other and we wanted to be able to plan a little and then be in the moment and see what...
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Adventuriety
We’re all learning on this adventure, every day. Scott learned that Venice is actually in Italy and not in France. He was showing Grant on Google Maps where we were living in Germany and he happened to notice Venice. He asked me if I knew where Venice was and I said, “Duh, it’s in Italy.” I didn’t really say that, but I did know it...
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Adventuriety
We are leaving Oberammergau this morning and we are sad to say goodbye. It has been a magical three weeks and we couldn’t imagine a better place to have begun our journey this year. Looking back through the pictures, I can’t believe that we have done so much in such a short time. We have hiked, alpine coastered, swam and played cards. We have...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Miscommunication can be blissful. I had profound realization of this nugget of wisdom on our hike today plus learned a few other good little tidbits. We had a great thirty-six hour mini road trip this weekend. It was fun and we saw some new sights and currency, learned a few things and ate a lot of non-husband approved food. We are getting closer to daily...
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Inspirietry
I saw another rainbow today. It was just as beautiful and just as mysterious as the one that I’d seen in Oberammergau last week, but this one, I found it in an “Antiquitäten & Raritäten” shop in Rorschach, Switzerland. We started out yesterday in Oberammergau with the decision to drive to Lichtenstein for lunch. I don’t really know why, I had mentioned Lichtenstein to Scott...
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Adventuriety
Our phones are not really working. Scott has an expensive international plan so we can be contacted in an emergency and I put a European SIM chip in my phone when we got here and it works intermittently. So, we had no way of researching what to do in Vaduz because we only planned lunch. Not ready for our adventure to end, we used the...
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