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April 2018 Month in Review

What a month. These type of travel months don’t come around very often, and for that we’re grateful. While it’s fun and exciting to see ancient wonders of the world and explore markets and struggle with languages...

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March 2018 Month in Review

Where We’ve Been Philippines: 5 days (Palawan Island) Hong Kong: 4 days China: the rest of the month in Shenzhen Highlights Camping in Palawan: We’ve traveled to a lot of places, so when we say we...

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Getting Cozy in China

My word for 2018 is ‘Cozy.’ It’s not an annual thing for me to pick a word for the year. I’ve done it before, but as I’m sitting here, I don’t remember the last time or what my word was. I do remember one...

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February 2018 Month In Review

Man, February always sneaks by me. Why does 28 days always feel so much different than 31? I was thinking about not writing this post this month, sneaking into March without marking the occasion. But February ushered...

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January 2018 Month in Review

I have mixed feelings about January. It is so long. Why does it always feel so long? After the whirlwind of the holiday season, it can be nice to have a nice long month to recuperate or to firm up many newly formed...

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2017 Year In Review

Oh man, I love a good end-of-year post. I’ve been inhaling them all week, as we usher in a new year. As in 2016, 2017 brought a whole host of changes to both of our lives, and in years like this, I can’t help...