As the third phase of our trip, for the past week the family has been staying in Barcelona, Spain, with friends of ours, the Casarez family. The first full day we were here, we went on a Spanish civil war themed tour of the city. Our guide knew lots about the war, and had many […]
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Adam Smith, often called the father of capitalism, is probably best known for for his book, The Wealth of Nations. However, The Wealth of Nations was not his first work. His first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments in many ways laid the ground work for his later, more famous publication. We were recently in
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As many of you know we are in the UK for a few weeks, and are currently in Scotland. To be more specific we are in the city of Glasgow, the second largest city in Scotland, after the capital, Edinburgh. We were in Glasgow for only a couple of days, but we did a bunch
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For the next month the family is in England as the start of a four month Europe “holiday”. We were in Southampton for a few days, before moving on to London. One of the first things, and also one of my favorite things we did in London was visit the Tower of London. We actually
For the past week the family has been on a transatlantic travel from New York to Southampton in the UK as the first part of our four month European trip. We sailed on the Queen Mary 2 for a week before arriving on the 25th of August. I really enjoyed the voyage, and so far
Last week we visited the Adirondack mountains. Mom and Dad got Mimi, Cici, Aleah and I an Airbnb on a lake in the mountains as a birthday present for Mimi and Cici, although all of us were very excited. The Airbnb was very fun, with plenty of space. There was plenty of stuff to do
This past weekend Mom, Dad, Busia, Aleah and I all piled into the car to visit Confluence, PA. Once we arrived I found out that the Airbnb we were staying at didn’t have any internet! I didn’t have long to dwell upon this horrific realization because almost as soon as I put my bags down
This week we are in Lewes, Delaware. We have never been here before, so I thought it would be fun to write a blog post about Lewes’s history. The town was originally Dutch before being taken by the British. For most of its early days it was a busy major shipping town, but as rails
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For the past week we have been in Charleston, SC to visit friends. We have visited before, right at the start of our trip, but it was a fun stop on the way to Jacksonville, FL. We had tons of fun here because there was so much to see, even in our campground. We visited
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On Tuesday of last week we visited the Museum of Aviation at Robbins AFB. We went with several other full time families who are staying in the same campground as us. I was really interested in this trip because I thought it sounded pretty interesting and cool. Right when we pulled up I already had
