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Postcards from Tucson
At our Airbnb baby boots A shop in La Entrada de Tubac, an artist colony Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum As the sun was setting, we heard a pack of coyotes howling. On our last day in Tucson, we went on a...
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Family Reunion in the U.K.
We got back home from our family reunion in Arlington, did a gazillion loads of laundry, and repacked our bags once again for our family reunion in England. We spent a night with my sister and her...
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Port Sunlight
We spent a morning in Port Sunlight, a picturesque village on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire. The village was built at the end of the 19th century by William Lever (think Sunlight dish detergent or...
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Hawkstone Park Follies
One of the most interesting places we visited during our time in England was the 100 acre Hawkstone Park Follies in Shropshire. The Follies were built over several generations by the Hill family in the...
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Bodnant Garden
Bodnant Garden is an impossibly beautiful 80 acre garden in Wales. It is probably most famous for its Laburnum Arch. We missed its peak, and could only imagine its splendor in May and June: We didn’t...
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Cwm Idwal in the Ogwen Valley
From the cultivated beauty of Bodnant Garden, we drove on to the wild beauty of Cwm Idwal…A stone path guided our steps… …to a lake: It was a bit windy… Actually, it was CRAZY windy! Brooding...
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Black Rock Sands & the Festiniog Railway
I’m sure the first thing that pops into anyone’s mind when they think of the U.K. is the beach…what with the endless sunny days and the balmy, tropical climate. On a morning that was forecasted to be...
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Eclipse!
My husband and I have talked about taking the Crescent to New Orleans for as long as we’ve been married. Earlier this summer he finally found a reason to buy tickets. He was determined to be in the...
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Girls Weekend in NYC
Five years ago when my oldest was turning 13, we celebrated by going to NYC with friends. For five long years my daughter has been anxiously awaiting her turn to go to NYC for her 13th birthday. We...
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Still here…
I began the year with a trip to Charlotte for the annual reunion of my college roommates…It just so happened that two of our daughters were there for different sports competitions. I was so grateful to...
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