As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was planning another “girls’ day getaway” with my friend Susi, which we’re trying to make an annual thing) and that happened to be last Sunday. We both had been overdue for some uninterrupted girl time. There is something so energizing and...
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… and it was more than I could have ever asked for. I am much too late blogging about this, but I cannot not mention the wonderful weekend I spend with my dear friend Caryn in Los Angeles a couple of months ago. It was just before my trip to...
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I spent the last weekend in the Nevada desert meeting up with 60+ amazing bloggers of which I had met only one or two in person before (actually three come to think of it) for the ultimate unconference ‘Bloggers in Sin City” and, truth be told, I don’t even like Las Vegas all that much. That, however, didn’t...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. After a good night’s rest, we got up early today (8/10) to explore the Wine Country. Being a geologist, I had to – of course...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. We left the Bodega Bay Inn in the morning and our route today (8/9) took us further up Highway 1 along the beautiful northern Californian...
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J and I had a lovely, long Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice, cozy, quiet – just the two of us – and almost a bit too long. (Did I really just say that?) Well, you know the kind, where it gets really hard to go back to work on Monday....
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Today (7/8) we spent another beautiful day in San Francisco. We took BART into San Francisco again after breakfast and got off at Embarcardero station. We walked over to the water and walked out onto Pier 5, which offered a beautiful view of Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge and the...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. Today (07/30) was absolutely hands-down amazing. I had been looking forward to hiking in Arches National Park (near Moab) since the day my Mom...
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My parents will be here in less then 72 hours. But, wait a minute. Not only will my parents be here in less then 72 hours, no, they’re bringing along – completely surprisingly and unexpectedly – my cousin Basti (who is more like a little brother to me). This was...
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Warning: this post is going to be photo-heavy. Besides spending the 4th of July weekend with my friend Susi, I also did something completely for myself… it involved about an hour of driving, dinner for one at a local diner and finding my way to the HP Pavillion to see...
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