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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - St. Augustine

Friday Five 8-25-2017

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Kaaboo Del Mar Passes
My Kaaboo Del Mar passes arrived this week! So excited to go!

This is the thirtieth installment in my weekly series, called the Friday Five. In this series, I’ll tell you about five random things that I love, whether they be books, travel, music, movies…or whatever. So without further ado, 8-25-2017’s Friday Five!

1–Stuff You Missed in History Class–Jane Austen. I really enjoy this podcast, but this episode in particular was a good one. Maybe it’s because I have read pretty much everything Austen has written, but I really liked this episode.

2–Guadeloupe. This article in Scuba Diver magazine takes me back to our wonderful trip to Guadeloupe (which you can read more about here–Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4).

3–Cherry Cheesecake Chocolate Bundt Cake. Oooh! I really, really want to make this.

4–Boston. Our Escape Clause wrote about 39 things to do in Boston. I definitely want to go back, and this will be a great guide when we do. But if you want to see how I spent Twelve Hours in Boston, you can check it out here.

5–New Harry Potter books! Two new books will drop this fall, Harry Potter: A History of Magic – The Book of The Exhibition and Harry Potter – A Journey Through A History of Magic (check out the details here). So excited!!

Friday Five 9-30-2016

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Caleb Hawley
Caleb Hawley and his band at Rehmsworld Concerts.

This is the seventeenth installment in my weekly series, called the Friday Five. In this series, I’ll tell you about five random things that I love, whether they be books, travel, music, movies…or whatever. So without further ado, 9-30-2016’s Friday Five!

1–Harry Potter. It’s no secret that I LOVE Harry Potter. So when I stumbled across this video over at Atlas Obscura, I couldn’t resist posting it here. Hope you enjoy it too.

2–Beethoven Jokes. I saw this one on Facebook lately, and could not stop laughing. Mike thought I was nuts, but then he’s not an orchestra dork (orch-dork! Haha!) like me. If you’re a musician you’ll probably enjoy it too. 🙂

3–Travel Blog Success. After reading about this course/site for months on several different blogs, I finally bit the bullet and signed up. So far, I’m impressed. If you’d like to check it out, they’re running a fall sale, so now is a great time.

4–Fall Books. I’ve seen a couple of lists of great books to read this fall. You can find a couple of them here and here if you’re looking for your next book.

5–Caleb Hawley. I was able to go to a Rehmsworld concert this past week where Caleb Hawley and his band played an awesome show! If you’re looking for some new music, I’d recommend that you check out any of his albums (Side 1, Side 2, or Steps, or even visit his YouTube channel. He puts out fantastic videos, so subscribing is a great way to hear what he’s been working on. And I’ll be uploading some video to my YouTube channel this weekend that I shot at the concert, in case you want to check that out as well.

Friday Five 8-12-2016

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No One Remembers SleepThis is the fourteenth installment in my weekly series, called the Friday Five. In this series, I’ll tell you about five random things that I love, whether they be books, travel, music, movies…or whatever. So without further ado, 8-12-2016’s Friday Five!

1–Cool dive sites. Atlas Obscura, which I read regularly, has this great post, with fantastic pictures, about sunken ruins and shipwrecks, and plane wrecks, and all sorts of cool placed that I now want to dive.

2–The Olympics. I am an Olympic junky…really and truly. We cancelled cable, but NBC has an excellent app for Amazon Fire Stick, so I can still watch all kinds of events. And as an added bonus, I can pick and choose what events to watch based on the type of sport, and then see all of the full events or just highlights. Sweet!

3–Harry Potter. I’m finishing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and am loving it. I found this list of 6 real-world Harry Potter locations. Definitely adding them to my bucket list.

4–Google/Quantum Computing. I don’t profess to completely understand this stuff (or understand really any of it). But I think it’s cool nonetheless. Google simulated a hydrogen molecule using quantum computing. You can read about it here.

5–Vermillion, SD and USD. Last weekend I went back to Vermillion, South Dakota to see some of my college and sorority sisters. We had tons of laughs, more than a few tears, and very little sleep. But it was great, and much-needed. I went to college and law school at The University of South Dakota (USD), and honestly feel like a piece of my heart will always be there. Such great memories!

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