My Dad took me in a new experience this Monday. At about 6:30, he woke me up, and we both got prepared for a day on the water. One 40 minute car drive later, we arrived at his friend, Mr Chris’s house. Before we left, another one of Mr Chris’s friends, Mr Brian, arrived on […]
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The last two years of post Coast Guard life have been great. Dozens or hundreds of adventures depending on how you count. At the same time, because we are always traveling, being spontaneous with a new opportunity that pops up can be difficult. Hard to grab a bike ride with a friend in DC when
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For my first post in quite a while, I chose to write about Kennywood, the historic amusement park. Kennywood is a historic park because it has many old, wooden and rickety rides. This week we had our first visit to the park in several years, needless to say it was a lovely visit full of
Jiu jitsu originated in Japan like many martial arts, but was made popular by the Gracies from Brazil, who used their style to win a variety of fighting contests such as the UFC. The art was originally intended as a method for samurai, who were usually mounted on horses, to fight on the ground when
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As you likely know, as of right now the family is located in Puerto Rico. It is a beautiful island, full of things to do and see. I love this place, and I wish we could come here every year. Unfortunately, Puerto Rico has quite a problem with invasive species, similar to the Florida Everglades
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As some of you may know, I recently got scuba certified. Last year I had the chance to do so, but foolishly decided not to. This year I did not make the same mistake, and even before we arrived here in Puerto Rico, I expressed my desire to get certified. Mom got re-certified last year,
We have seven stops before arriving back in New York City and we are enjoying our final moments in Europe. I can’t believe it is finally time to head back and I also can’t wait for our next excursion over here! Our first stop was Livorno, Italy. It was only a hop, skip, and 17
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In Olympia we had a nice guided tour of the museum and temple ruins. We learned the truth of the not so old torch ceremony, and pretended to race each other across the finish line (I won of course!). Starting with our tour of the museum we realized it was very helpful to have a
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How does one describe Meteora. This area was not even a speck of a thought when we first headed to Greece, but the more local people we met, the more people were telling us, “You must visit Meteora!” We had purposefully left this portion of our trip unplanned knowing that the time of year would
A few weeks ago we were in Athens, and what is THE thing to do there? See the ancient sites! By far the most famous site of the ancient city is the Acropolis, basically the high point of the city. In ancient times when the city was attacked, the population would flee there for safety.
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