I have not done a Travel Throwback post in a while and wanted to start doing them again so for today that is what I decided to share for Travel Tuesday. Normally these would appear on the blog on Thursday and is my avenue for sharing beloved travel photos that have gotten forgotten about in... Read More »

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For my throwback this week I share another polorid photo from my childhood.  This one was taken by my dad on a camping trip he took my sister and I on one summer.  We were at a campsite in Germisch, Germany.  I had just learned how to cook a dinner of veggies and meat in... Read More »

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I have a special treat for you today with not just one, but two travel throwback photos from my photographic archives.  These are two black and white photographs I took with my film camera back in the late ’90s.  My family at the time were stationed in Napoli, Italia for our second tour.  We visited... Read More »

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Going through my photographs, my hands found a few poloroids I had taken in my preteen years.  Here is a fun memory of spending time with my daddy in Austria.  Posing for my dad in his sunglasses and with his beer (my coca-cola is there to the side), with the snowy alps in the background.... Read More »

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I loved growing up in Italy and so my throwback today takes us back to my family’s first tour in southern Europe in the early nineties.  This photograph is from our first trip to the Venice, located in the marshy Venetian lagoon in northeastern Italy.  It was a special mother-daughter weekend getaway to see the... Read More »

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One of the most amazing things that can come from traveling the world is when you are confronted with a ‘pinch yourself’ moment.  A place in time when you cannot believe you are doing what you are doing, that you are where you are in that moment, and everything just hits you with a sense... Read More »

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Time for our next Travel Throwback and today I share with you a photograph taken about thirty miles from where I live now, almost thirty years ago.  How wonderful to see that in all the mobility and travels in the last thirty one years I can return to the same areas from my past.  For... Read More »

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