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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: The Streets of ParisParis is a magical, magical place. Around every corner are beautiful people (speaking French, nonetheless.) Down every block are legendary landmarks, museums, churches and monuments. Every statue-riddled bridge leads somewhere different, but still grand and huge and breathtaking. In this city, all that glitters really is gold. The greatest thing…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: The LouvreWhat truly makes us fall in love with Europe is its history. Deep-rooted, rich, and omnipresent, it’s impossible not to drink it in. It’s humbling that the same cobblestone streets were crowded with travelers, traders, and locals thousands of years ago. And Paris, of course, is no exception. The only…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Cambodian MuseumI realize that most of my posts have been about Cambodia lately. What can I say? It’s a truly unique place, and I miss it. During our stay in Cambodia, we discovered numerous diamonds in the rough – and this museum is one of them. This little gem was tucked…
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Continue reading →: Of Rain & Rest Days
Rain. It’s pretty much the only weather I’ve seen in the past two weeks aside from the Super Bowl, which, of course, I spent inside. The dreary, gloomy weather is pretty rough on us island folk. The day feels longer, the hours tick by slower, and we all just feel…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Aloha, folks! I apologize for my long absence from posting – in the past few months I moved, traveled to California for Christmas, and am finally settling into my new place (plus, we finally got internet!) I’m back on the scene with my favorite weekly post of all – Travel…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Kuta, BaliBali’s biggest and busiest city, Kuta, resembles many of its counterparts across the developing world. Cramped store front shops selling goods emblazoned with the local beer, beaches, sights an sayings. There’s 5-star hotels pushed up against locally-owned shack-type-hotels for a few dollars a night. It’s both squalor and ritz; a…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Lunch, Beer and a Volcano in Bali
Somewhere between Kuta and Uluwatu, I ended up eating lunch at an all you can eat buffet on the side of a cliff. Which overlooked one of the islands volcanoes. I gotta say that slamming back Bingtangs and Nasi Goreng (Balinese fried rice) was pretty idyllic. Plopped in front of…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: CambodiaIt’s funny how quickly the travel bug rears it’s convincing head. For those of us that have traveled, we constantly yearn to go more places and do more things. Especially when we meet other people who have been to totally different places than we have – then, it’s all over.…
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Continue reading →: A Happy, Healthy Vegan ThanksgivingThanksgiving us one of my favorite holidays. Not only do we get to eat, drink, and be merry, we get to be grateful for all the blessings in our lives. I’m sad I won’t be spending thanksgiving in my grandparents’ house and all the familiar faces and food that come…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Clean EatingHealth and fitness experts seem to agree on the mantra that fitness is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise, which makes sense totally sucks. If we work hard in the gym, in the water or on the trails, shouldn’t we be able to dine as we please? After all, exercise makes…
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Navigating motherhood, nourishing cooking, backyard gardening and running a small business with my little ohana on Oahu, Hawaii. Follow me as we build a suburban homestead, (try to) bake bread and steadily work towards a grown-at-home hale – all while intentionally raising kiddos and keeping our business growing.
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