One Year In: Nicosia, Cyprus
We've just completed the first year of our assignment to Cyprus, and the time has flown by. We've been busy, but still had time to ...Read More
Rejoining the Group
The fourth member of our family had some catching up to do in order to join the Great American Western Road Trip already in progress. L...Read More
Day 4: Great Sand Dunes
Today's adventure was at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve . At 750ft/229m, they are the tallest sand dunes in North America....Read More
Day 3: Capulin Volcano National Monument and the Great Sand Dunes (Barely)
We left Texas this morning on our first real sightseeing day. There have been wildfires along our planned route, so we were up early to che...Read More
Day 2: West Across Texas
Today was another long haul day and it felt like it. It was interminable. We started in Bossier City, Louisiana, near Shreveport and the Tex...Read More
Day 1: The Long Haul West
Today is the day! We departed on our Great American Western Road Trip. We left late, of course, and it was totally my fault. But, we got on ...Read More
What Happened to Bertie (Corinne's first blog post)
This is our older daughter's first blog post. She wrote this story about the death of our cat, Bertie, as part of a project and as a w...Read More
What It Means to Love a Dog (and Cat) in the Foreign Service
Keeping pets in #FSLife is notoriously difficult. It's even more difficult when you lose them. We PCS'd to Cyprus in August 2017 . B...Read More
Great American Western Road Trip: Summer 2018
4 weeks, 3 kids, 1 van, 16 different lodgings, 5400+ miles, 12+ National or State Parks & Monuments... 1 Epic Adventure? ...Read More
Father's Day 2018
This was my first Father's Day after my father's death a few months ago. I had anticipated that it might be difficult to address how...Read More
Cooking with Gas - International Adapters
We have an American propane grill that we took with us to Saudi Arabia, only to discover that we couldn't find a suitable attachment to ...Read More
Spring Break 2018 Summary - Lebanon and Israel
Our kids get two weeks off for spring break, so we decided that we'd visit Lebanon during the first week, make a quick pit-stop at our h...Read More
Shabat in Caesarea
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Northern Israeli coast - Rosh Hanikra Grottoes and Baha'i Gardens
Rosh Hanikra Grottoes Baha'i Gardens Read More
Yom HaShoah and Tel Aviv
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Lebanon Cedars Besharreh Kahlil Gibran Kozhaya
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Lebanon - Baalbek, Anjar, and Ksara
The first day of our visit to Lebanon took us west to the Roman ruins in Baalbek , the Ummayad ruins in Anjar , and to Lebanon's oldes...Read More
The 2018 Federal Shutdown for FSCEs
The 2018 U.S. government shutdown began at midnight EST on January 20, 2018 because a bill failed to pass the Senate 50–49 on January 19, 20...Read More
Tech - dual networks over a single cable
Did you know that when you only have one cable to run both local internet to one cable box and VPN to another device, you can actually run b...Read More
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