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New Year, New Adventures

January 6, 2013

Yesterday, this happened: We booked a trip to Turkey for April 6-19 of this year. The Blue Mosque, Istanbul Hot Springs “Cotton Castle” in Pammukale Hot Air Balloon Rides in Cappadocia I was the one who pushed for this trip, researched it and booked it, and it’s the first time that I’ve truly taken “ownership” [...]

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#WEverb12: Enliven

December 7, 2012

Enliven: Was there a book or article that inspired you to make a change in your life this year? What was the source and what did you change? If you are remotely interested in all of the traveling I’ve done, you must check out the following three blogs that have had an impact on the way [...]

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#WEverb12: Fellowship

December 5, 2012

I am participating in #WEverb12 for the month of December where I will write to a prompt every day this month to reflect upon the last year. Fellowship: What community has engaged you most this year and what did you get out of your participation? I wasn’t anticipating writing two posts about South Africa in a row, but [...]

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#WEverb12: Experiment

December 4, 2012

Experiment: What did you do in 2012 that you had never done before? Will you do it again? Oh, the things that I’ve done this year that I had never done before… There are so, so many. I could start out by recounting all of the countries I went to that I had never gone to [...]

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Home

August 1, 2012

Home seems like an inconceivable concept to me now as I face the end of this incredible journey in Spain. I can’t quite wrap my head around the prospect of home and all that it entails. One one hand, I am so, so excited to get back to everything and everyone that I love and [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa Video

July 17, 2012

If you need a refresher of our 4-day Cape Town extravaganza, here is the first recap and here is the second recap. We had a wonderful time overall in Cape Town and would go back in an instant. Here is the video of our trip! Cape Town, South Africa from Mandy Weger on Vimeo. Today, [...]

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South African Safari: The Video

July 12, 2012

So you guys already saw the lion kill video from our time on safari, but that’s not all we saw! We saw some truly incredible, amazing animals and it’s still my favorite trip that we’ve taken. Everything was so unbelievable. We got so close to animals that I have only seen in zoos and it [...]

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Mom & Dad’s Visit to Spain

June 5, 2012

Apologies for my absence last week, but I had a good reason! My parents came to town!! We were so busy bouncing around and showing them everything we could that I just didn’t have a lot of time to sit down and write. I have my latest video here to recap Mom & Dad’s visit! [...]

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The Real Safari Experience: The Hardest Thing to Watch

May 25, 2012

Warning: The following video and photos contain extremely graphic content. This is nature at its most violent and cruel. I went in to our South African safari with the hope that I would see some truly fantastic animals at close range to observe them in their natural state. We had a wish-list of things to [...]

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Cape Town, Day Two: Ken Forrester, 96 Winery Road, Rust en Vrede Wine Tasting, Mama Africa

May 22, 2012

Day two, we had some wine tastings scheduled. We started the day at Ken Forrester’s winery, which as I mentioned we had tried his wines in Philadelphia at Tria a few years ago. It was quite a way to start the day at 11 o’clock! We saw Ken, but as he seemed to be tied [...]

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Cape Town, Day One: Table Mountain, Boulders, Delaire Graff Estates, Wedgeview, Five Flies

May 21, 2012

On my 101 in 1001 list, visiting Africa was listed as one of my travel goals, as the continent has been one of those places I’ve thought of as wild, beautiful, and incredibly interesting. Mike had been before on a safari with his family to Kenya and Tanzania, but this was my first trip. South [...]

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