Category: Travels
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Lake Bled, Slovenia
Less than an hour from Ljubljana, Lake Bled sits in the foothills of the Julian Alps. It is practically a stone’s throw from Austria. Mountains looming in the background, alpine houses with flowers hanging over their balconies, a quaint tourist town… it looked like Leavenworth, WA. We drove around the lake, walked in the…
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Zagreb
Besides wandering the streets, I only had one objective in Zagreb – to visit the most intriguing museum I’d ever heard of. The Museum of Broken Relationships housed all sorts of stories and artifacts collected from around the world, from a teenager who had a crush on someone for a week to an old woman…
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Sun Valley 2013
Working on the weekend isn’t so bad when it includes flying to Sun Valley on a private plane! And yes, it’s as comfortable as it looks in the movies… I’m not inclined to participate in uncontrolled snow activities that involve speed (I will have to recount my traumatic ski stories later), so what is…
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Ha Long Bay, Vietnam 2012
From Hanoi, we took a 3.5 hour tour bus with A Class Tours (aclasscruise.com) to Ha Long Bay in the Gulf of Tonkin. We booked this through our hotel in Saigon, so I did zero research and was keeping my fingers crossed that things would turn out ok. We were on a boat called Opera, named…
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Hanoi, Vietnam 2012
Our hotel balcony looked down over the street. A perfect way to get oriented to the chaos, sitting above it all with a drink in hand. When we were in Saigon, Kailee went out with a group of people and met someone from Hanoi. Through the wonders of Facebook, they were able to reconnect. She…