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Although I would love to be your personal vacation photographer (seriously, though – I’ll do it!), you can take your own fabulous photos with these honeymoon selfie tips. All it takes is a few extra minutes, a little forethought, and an inexpensive tripod. Starting long before our wedding, John & I have been working on…
Brandywine Falls
On the side of the road just south of Whistler, BC there’s a tiny little brown side that points to the entrance for Brandywine Falls Provincial Park. Nondescript, apparently inconsequential, it was a impulsive detour. Inconsequential, nothing. A brief hike along a merry little stream confirmed our theory that it was going to be a…
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My newly-defined role as a destination photographer has been a long time coming. First there was that time in Germany when (as a fifteen year old) I walked around with not one…not two…but THREE film cameras. I stood on a street corner in Heidelberg and knew I had been bit by the travel bug –…
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Let’s just mark this as my first adventure in non-communicating. In a world where English just isn’t very common, life in this foreign country becomes a game of pantomiming, synonyms, and the Google Translate App on my phone. “Gym?” “gym?” “workout room?” “running room?” “exercise?” “gymnasium?” After much head-shaking and putting three heads together,…
I went to NC and VA
Guys! I GOT TO GO TO NORTH CAROLINA! As I started the cross-continent journey to North Carolina late last month, I did the math: it had been almost TWO YEARS since my last trip to my hometown. While this may not be abnormal for most immigrants, I have been incredibly grateful to be able to…
Be My Bridesmaid?
Aren’t we four and ten still? Writing secret messages back and forth when we were supposed to be asleep? (Sorry, Mom & Dad.) Aren’t we six and twelve still? Bickering over who had to make the bed and what the standard of “clean” would pass for a clean room? Aren’t we just eight and fourteen, facing the enormity of a…