Tag: travel
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Zion Volunteering Trip – Day 4
I was very impressed with our volunteer coordinator, Jessica, for choosing this volunteer opportunity. While Zion National Park gets lots of people offering to volunteer every year (Jessica said about 450), smaller parks and monuments don’t get as many offers from people wanting to volunteer. Since there are other National Parks around the Zion area,…
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Zion Volunteering Trip – Day 3
The first few nights in Zion were very, very cold. With the rain falling, the temperatures dropped to the low 40s. A few students were cold at night, but once it was explained to them that the easiest solution was to layer on clothes, most slept okay. Even so, getting up in the morning before…
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Zion Volunteering Trip – Day 2
Monday was our first day of volunteering. The day dawned wet and cold, which scuttled the original plan (though we ended up doing it a few days later) and instead headed to the east side of the park to pick up trash at various turnouts. We spent the morning picking up trash, wrapping up around…
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Zion Volunteering Trip – Day 1
I just returned from a week of volunteering (and hiking) in Zion National Park. The trip was arranged through the University of Tampa’s PEACE office. Eleven students, one staff member, and myself made up our group (13 total). Here’s a rundown of what we did. Our first day began before “bright and early” – we…
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Hilton Head, SC
We had big plans for Hilton Head, but we weren’t really prepared for Hilton Head. Debi asked me the night before we left what the forecast was for Hilton Head. I swear the website I checked said it was going to be in the 40s the entire time we were going to be there. So,…
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Savannah, GA
Debi had a conference in Hilton Head, SC from the 20th through the 23rd. Since Hilton Head is within driving distance (about 7 hours), we decided we’d all go up. On the way we stopped to see a friend and colleague in Jacksonville, then continued on to Savannah, GA. We had heard it was a…
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Utah trip – January 6th
We spent the morning of the 6th packing up, then flew home. Our flight from Utah left around 2:00. We ate lunch before we went to the airport, but needed to pick up dinner in Houston. Since we didn’t have much of a layover, we grabbed Subway sandwiches on the way to our connection. We…
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Utah trip – January 5th
We took things easy on the 5th. Just before lunch I took Toren to REI to look at backpacks (for an upcoming trip) and Debi went shopping with her Mom. At REI, Toren saw a display model of his backpack and wanted to get in it, so I let him and carried him around while…
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Utah trip – January 4th
We had also talked about going skiing/snowboarding while out there with Debi’s brother-in-law, Brent, who is currently waiting for training for a new plane at Delta, which means he gets to go skiing a lot. I ended up going with him on the 4th. I had to rent a snowboard, and it had been almost…
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Utah trip – January 3rd
I spent a large portion of the day trying to get my mother’s new computer working and organized. We then went to another high school friend’s (Brad Anderson) for dinner. His kids were also great with Toren and we also had a great time.