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A Nicaraguan mission trip

Our week-long family mission trip to Nicaragua awed me: the time spent with my twin granddaughters, and the opportunity to see mission work in a beautiful country I had heard about for years. The 3 hour plane ride from Houston to Managua was not too bad (after our long trip to Japan.) The girls with […]

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13 things we learned from our trip to Japan #japantrip #traveltojapan

Apprehensive about his first trip to Japan, my husband, Bill researched the cultural dos and don’ts online. He did not want to offend anyone. However, after a long 24 hour trip, friends greeted us as we stepped off the plane and made us feel welcome. Someone accompanied us everywhere we went and guided us through […]

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Dauphin Island, Alabama

I never expected to see such beauty in Alabama but the coastal island at Mobile Bay was breathtaking. Our daughter and son-in-law invited us to stay with them at a Dauphin Island beach house for four days. We flew onto the short runway on the long, thin island which has about six square miles of […]

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Disney World, Florida

Pictures from our March 2013 trip to Disney World.

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St. George, Florida

Bill and I flew to St. George, Florida, on the way back from a family vacation to Disneyworld. We stayed two nights. The first week of March was a bit chilly, but there were few tourists and we had empty beaches and miles of shells and starfish to explore. We stayed at St George’s Inn, where […]