travel

I had a long conversation with Claire over the weekend. Time zones are tricky and internet isn’t all that great these days for some reason (ours). So I was so grateful for some uninterrupted time to really talk. To delve into things she is learning. To think about the seeds…

I am feeling my dear mother’s pain with summer schedule coordination this summer. Phew! She is always coordinating and situating and trying to figure out the details when we meet up together in the summers, and it takes a lot of work with a family of nine kids! So each…

…and some of Canyonlands too! (Canyonlands neighbors Arches and it’s pretty do-able to visit both in a day, which I completely recommend, especially if you want to see MESA ARCH at sunrise, pictured above. Please don’t miss that!) But first a little back story: A few months ago, a couple…

My friend had the opportunity to go to Iceland recently. Looking through her breathtaking pictures made me want to relive some of our own memories from when we lucked out and got to go there five years ago. (Max was serving his mission so he missed it…I hope he gets…

Promoting Resilience in teens Claire had an unintentional lesson in resilience a couple weeks ago, and I want to share it because once again, I keep being taught that so many of the things we try to teach can only be learned if we let go. Covid has hit the…

I am working hard to catch up on life over here. And on the documenting of it. I’m working on my “March little things” post and realized I haven’t posted about the trip we took for Spring Break right before the world shifted due to COVID. Before any travel bans…

Ok, really “two days” in the life, but from the time we leave to the time we get back it really is close to 24 hours. We do these visits lickety-split. For about a year now we have making this regular trek to Wisconsin as part of a clinical trial.…

Laikipia grew smaller and smaller as we took off in our tiny airplane on the grass landing strip. We landed in the Maasai Mara, greeted by two more Land Rovers and more drivers and guides who were ready to fill us up with more adventure. This was different from our…

I better get my act together and write about our adventures in Kenya this past summer now that I finally have this blog format that will show off the pictures a little better. We packed up and left on June 6th, met up with Elle from Utah and Max and…

We spent one of our mornings in Uganda teaching safe water/health and hygiene in the shade of a big tree in a little village on the very outskirts of Mbale. Almost fifty percent of the residents there are affected with AIDS.  We met a health intern living there who is…