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In 1985, James Taylor released an album called "That's Why I'm Here." It's full of good songs and the title song is one of the best. James recalls that the song was inspired by the death of his friend John Belushi, a
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The Notes app comes on every iOS and macOS device by default. In the early days, it wasn't very reliable or feature filled and that turned some people away from it. The current app is great though. You can easily scan text or full documents to a note.
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In his classic 1872 book, author Jules Verne wrote: It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. That’s true. And it’s not just seeing new things. It’s also learning, feeling, smelling, and trying new things. As we flew out of Las Vegas,
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It’s been more than a decade since I was last in Peru. Some things have changed but much is the same. As with all our stops though, it’s fun to see it again for the first time as Candace and the kids explore The Land of the Incas.
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La Paz is the beautiful city in the clouds. It seems overlooked among the great South American cities but it can take your breath away in multiple ways. I was so happy to be back. Catching your breath You can’t talk about La Paz without mentioning the altitude. It’
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Another week, another ocean, another continent. We flew across the Atlantic and landed in Brazil. Welcome back to the Americas! City Life We began this stop in the South America’s biggest city, São Paulo. It was nice to be back in a metropolis where people drive on the right
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After exploring Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, for no particular reason, we decided to walk to the edge of the park. When we got there, we thought we’d go on the bridge to see the view of the waterfall. And when we got there, we figured since we walked that
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Our next adventure took us North to Zimbabwe. Candace’s love language is waterfalls so surely we had to visit one of the Seven Natural wonders of the world: Victoria Falls. We’ll break this into four parts: The Town Victoria Falls is also the name of a small town
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In our family, the year that a child turns twelve they can choose anywhere in the world for a trip with just me and them. Cole chose Bolivia. Will chose Japan. Samm chose South Africa. Well, here we are 10,319 miles away from home. (A new record if you’
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Singapore was our final destination on the Asian continent. I’m still still wrapping my brain around this interesting city-state. It’s different but familiar. In many ways, it feels like “The Las Vegas of Southeast Asia.” The Name The history of this Singapore island is long and short. Having
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It’s not that I had never heard of Malaysia but I didn’t know much about it. That seems to be the situation for most people I know. When they heard Kuala Lumpur was on the list they always asked, “Where is that?” It is the home of the
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Thailand is known as the land of smiles. It could also be known as the land of malls, traffic, food, and energy. I was happy to be back in this country and show the family around. A Place to Call Home Our house was very comfortable and sat atop a
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Our next destination was the largest city in Central Vietnam: Da Nang. Most people will visit the much larger cities in the North and South but we wanted something a little less touristy. We got it. (It backfired a little bit because when Sunday came, the closest worship services where
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For the next leg in the trip around the world, we took a five hour flight over the East China Sea and landed in Hong Kong aka The City of Skyskrapers. For this flight we took the airline HK Express because it had direct access at the right time. (In
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The flight was long as we passed the equator back to Winter. (Jane prepared for the return to cold with plenty of hot chocolate on the flight.) This is my fourth time in the Land of the Rising Sun. It remains exciting and new. If you like to explore, there
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After our week in the Auckland suburbs, we decided to plan a downtown stay for Sydney. We still rented a car because we knew there were some adventures with distance but mostly it was walking around the city blocks. (And that’s good too because driving with a right wheel