Welcome to Bruno, MN! Up until now, we have not (that I can remember) been in any place where we upped the general population by 2% upon arrival…until Bruno. Not ones for planning much, we did plan to be in the Bruno/Sandstone area at exactly this time because that is when Matt’s Mom, Donna, was [...]

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Per usual, our blog journal is a bit time-lagged to current events but do not fret. We are going on a blog heater this week and will be up to current affairs by the end of this week. Stay tuned… When we left you last we had just finished our amazing stay in the land [...]

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This was virgin territory for both Matt and I, and we were both SOOOOO excited to get into and explore Chicago! CHI-TOWN!! Fortunately we know a guy who knows a guy, you know?  (Mob Talk) Actually, I had requested a “Must Do/See/Eat”  list from my good buddy Andrew Brentan who hails from this Windy City.  He [...]

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I know that my beloved wrote all about the wonders of the weather in TX and touched on some of the experiences that we had there and after, but I wanted to expand… I want to mention all the wonderful times we had with all the wonderful people we got to spend time with. In [...]

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O cursed to thee who speaketh too early. See cuz last we left off we’d just rolled into sunny and wonderful Dallas/Allen TX and was thanking our lucky stars it wasn’t like our only 2 previous visits. It’s almost uncanny. I mean our friends who live there tell us that they virtually NEVER get tornados [...]

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Ahoy. After another great (almost) month in Austin the time came once again to lift anchor and set sail. We did just that on Saturday and are now happily camped out in the Big D “Dallas” – ok, technically Allen, TX in front of our friends/hosts The Tallal’s place. We basically ate and lazed our [...]

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WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!! We found out right before we left San Diego a few weeks ago.  Oh, that reminds me.  We are in Austin again.  We loved Austin SOOO much last March that we vowed to come back this March.  Why?  Well, for starters, we thought the weather was P.E.R.F.E.C.T!  Our friends, [...]

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            Under the Boardwalk, Out of the sun.                       Under the Boardwalk,                        We’ll be having some fun!                      Under the Boardwalk, Boardwalk! [...]

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Leaving Eugene we headed straight back to the coast to continue our trip South via highway 1. As Bree mentioned in her last post recapping our our time in Oregon, we’d started at the tip top of the Olympic Peninsula and the plan was to take the coast highway all the way back to SoCal. [...]

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