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Quick Jaunt to New Zealand
One of the first things on our Australia bucket list was to visit my grandmother in New Zealand. I am very close to my grandmother, and Nick loves her as well, so it was a pretty high priority for us to go and see her as soon as we could. That plan came together during the second-last week of January. Just to show you how amazing my grandmother is, here’s a picture of her in her heyday as a go-go/cage dancer, after she had given birth to 4 sons: And without further ado, we were off to the airport! The first thing we did upon arriving, after settling in, was…
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Hwy 1 Road Trip – Part 1 (Hearst Castle)
For those who don’t know, State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north-south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. (from Wikipedia) “California State Route 1” by User:NE2 – Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created for the highways.. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Since moving to California, Nick and I have had it on our list to drive highway 1 all the way north, and all the way south. We drove the northern portion during our road trip to Seattle in February of 2013, and we’d driven as far south as Monterey together. Earlier this year, we…
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Busy first weekend in California!
Hello world! This is our first blog post from California (actually first blog post ever). Nick and I arrived in Cali on Saturday August 25 and it’s been a total whirlwind since then getting set up, finding a cell phone provider, shopping for apartments, and running errands. We’re in corporate housing until October 9th but it turns out that corporate housing doesn’t even come with one kind of salad dressing!! They set us up with toilet paper and towels, which I guess are the important things, but we had to go out and actually buy peanut butter, salad dressing, olive oil, salt and pepper, and other essentials. We’ve had a…