Rob’s family has gone on these really fun trips in their RV for Thanksgiving the last couple of years. I was invited along for the first time while Rob and I were dating. We drove out to San Diego and enjoyed sunshine, the beach, and skirt steak for Thanksgiving! I thought, what a…
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Dead Horse Point State Park
We slept right through the sunrise Saturday morning; not waking up until we…
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Dreamy Bryce Canyon
I have wanted to experience Bryce Canyon ever since I moved to Utah and Rob hadn’t been since he was a kid…So, kind of spontaneously I suggested that we take a last camping trip for the season in late October. We had had an unseasonably long, warm summer so I…
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Memories in Marrakesh
Marrakesh, tourist capital of Morocco. After our excursion in the desert, we jumped on a bus, and for the next 11 hours, winded our way to the city! On our way to the city, our bus stopped in a little town for lunch, and we couldn’t find an ATM, so we…
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The Calm After the Storm
The rain had stopped, the clouds hovered motionless above us in the desert sky, and there was no breeze. The sky was completely calm. The sun had gone down hours before we laid down in our tents, but the temperature was still boiling. It felt like someone had turned off…
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Storm in the Sahara
Along the way we saw monkeys, visited a popular park with a fountain and a lion statue, picked up a hitchhiker, tasted fresh figs for the first time, saw the contrast of barren desert roads and deep green oasis’s, sweated out every ounce of sweat we owned, took pictures, and…
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Fes
Morocco……sounds exotic, right?! It does to me, and it was our first time to Africa! We wanted to see historical architecture and design and experience traditional Moroccan culture so we stayed inside the medina, the older part of the city. We came by bus and arrived in Fes late in…
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Chefchaouen: The Blue City
We arrived in Tangier, in northern Morocco, by plane late Thursday night. I am not sure how, but somehow we survived the ride from the airport to our hostel. Our taxi driver skillfully, and I mean very skillfully, maneuvered the car up, up and up the steep, EXTREMELY narrow streets staggered…
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We Fell in Love with Lagos
Lagos, oh sweet Lagos! I could write a poem about Lagos – just saying the word is like sweet music to my ears. We had such a wonderful experience in this beautiful city on the Southern coast of Portugal. We arrived in the evening after a long train ride from…
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Scooterin’ Around Sintra
The jet lag was hitting us hardcore on day two in Lisbon. We’d planned to get up early to enjoy a full day in Sintra, which is about an hour train ride from Lisbon, but we were barely waking up and staggering out of bed around 10:30. We didn’t leave…
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Lisbon’s Little Secret… Pasteis de Nata
The next day we left Madrid and flew to Lisbon, Portugal via Iberia Airlines. We quickly learned that the proper name is Lisboa. We fell in love with the brightly colored buildings, the historical architecture, and the food! When in Portugal you have to try “pasteis de nata” which means…
