As we started to descend towards Schiphol Airport, I was peeking through the plane window and couldn’t hold my excitement: -Look!!! Tulips!!! Colorful strips of tulip fields started to appear out of nowhere and stretched to the horizon. On the train ride from the airport, we passed more tulip fields […]
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“Dead bushes,” I muttered. “We need to do something about it.” It had been more than a year since the pandemic started, and I was looking through the window of our condo at lifeless branches dangling outside. “Why don’t we get rid of them and plant some flowers? We work […]
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How do you spell “Victor”? How do you spell “Julia”? I didn’t know what I expected before visiting Rhode Island, but learning a new language was certainly not what I planned for. But here we were, at the gift shop of the Sailing Museum in Newport, unexpectedly immersed in the […]
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Recently, we did something we had never done before. We went for an extended trip to a very expensive country. Or so we thought we did. Oman was our first Gulf country, and all we heard before our visit was that the oil-rich countries of the region were not the […]
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When we traveled to Thailand 10 years ago, one of the planning concerns was how to see as many Thai temples as possible without being “templed out”. Although by the end of the trip, beautiful Thai temples did start to resemble each other, we left the country just in time […]
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