Apparently, the word travel has a common origin with the word travail. During the era when travel was uncomfortable and often dangerous, the French word trepaliare (torture) spawned the word…
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Dear Dad, This is the 2nd Father’s Day you’ve had since I was born, and I’m not even a year old yet. Mum says that America and Australia have different…
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(Yes, that is the dog’s water bowl. Yes, that is my child. No, I did not take this photo.) * When we brought home our adorable mutt, Zulu, a number…
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We arrived back in Laos yesterday with our sore throats and running noses and 103 kilos of luggage (no, not making that up, that is actually how much we checked…
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Last Thanksgiving, a friend of ours, Ryan, introduced us to game called “I like”. The rules of this game are simple. You go around the table one by one and…
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I do not have time to write blog posts at the moment. Seriously. I’ve sat down a dozen times this last week to start one and I always get interrupted…