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Lucas is a Teenager!

It’s official. Lucas is a teenager! Lucas turned 13 in June. He had two requests for his birthday. He wanted to play pickleball and see a Braves Game. We made it happen even though we were on our way home from Michigan. We stopped in Cincinnati the day before Lucas’ birthday because the Braves were in town playing the Reds.…

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Georgia – Work, Camping, and Play

After Tennessee, we headed back to Georgia. Lucas and Henry asked to go camping, so we headed to Stone Mountain for a long camping weekend. We went camping with some of our Atlanta friends. It was nice to reconnect. Our air mattress was too big for our tent, but we managed. Lucas and Henry are old enough now to take…

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Tennessee

Being in the United States means family, family, and more family. The first stop was in Nashville to belatedly celebrate Michael’s sister’s 40th birthday. We rented a house with Melissa, Michael’s mom, Jeanie, and several of Melissa’s friends. We saw live music, ate great food, and escaped from an escape room. We also took a bicycle pub tour downtown. It…

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Cousin Time in North Carolina

We picked up Vivian from the Netherlands to bring her to North Carolina for her school break. We used sky miles to get home, and we had a marathon trip from the Netherlands to Greensboro airport, stopping in London and Pennsylvania. My brother Sam and his wife AC joined us in North Carolina. We celebrated Sam’s birthday with our tradition…

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The Big Apple

We spent two days in New York City as part of our road trip from North Carolina to Boston. Two days is not enough time in the Big Apple, but we made the most of it.  We rode the Staten Island Ferry and got a great view of the Statue of Liberty. Some day we will go back and go…

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A Road Trip to See Friends

Our international travel plans have us leaving out of Boston. We looked at booking a flight from North Carolina to Boston, but we decided to rent a car and take a road trip. It was about the same price to fly or rent a car, and we have a lot of friends in the Northeast, so it was an easy…

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A Wedding and A Turkey

We spend our lives in pursuit of love and happiness. That means something different to each of us, but it is the feeling of joy that comes from finding the love and happiness that we seek. That is the beginning of the speech I wrote for my dad and Kay’s wedding. My dad and Kay got married on the Monday…

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Roadtripping to Wisconsin and Illinois

Michael likes to check off the states and countries he visits. Earlier this summer he had three states left. Wisconsin was one of those states (the Dakotas are his last two states). I am not as excited about keeping track, but I had never been to Illinois. After visiting our friends in Lake Charlevoix, We drove up and over Lake…

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AZ to GA

After five weeks out west, it was time for us to drive back east. We did not spend much time seeing the sights, but we did stop at the Petrified National Forest for a hike. Henry’s 4th-grade national park pass has come in handy so far. There are several hikes in the Petrified National Forest, but we did a simple…

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