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By Ben, 26 September, 2016

Friesland

See our photos from Friesland.

Monday, Sept 26

Jessie overslept in the morning due to a small army of gas-powered hedge trimmers in the condo complex drowning out her alarm! We still had time for a canal boat tour (included in our HollandPasses) before we caught the train to Friesland, a region in north Holland.

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By Ben, 25 September, 2016

Nuenen

See our photos from Leiden and Nuenen.

Sunday, Sept 25

When I checked my email in the morning, I learned that our AirBnB host in Paris had been robbed! She canceled our booking, and I used the refund to book another room, but I did not thoroughly read the reviews. Cue ominous music.

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By admin, 24 September, 2016

Amsterdam

See our album of photos from Amsterdam.

Friday, Sept 23

We had a lovely breakfast in the hostel featuring cold cuts, cheeses, and hard boiled eggs as well as fresh pastries (which I carefully avoided, just in case), cereal, and an espresso machine that made 10 different drinks perfectly.

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By Ben, 22 September, 2016

Utrecht

Wednesday, Sept 21

We left Emporia around 7am and met Zarrin and Ziya Reynolds at a pet hospital where they volunteer, north of Kansas City. Zarrin came with us to breakfast while Ziya drove her car to work. Zarrin has been unemployed for 6 months after schoolteaching at a juvenile detention facility became too dangerous. After breakfast at Waffle House, she dropped us off at the airport and borrowed our car for the duration of our vacation.

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By Ben, 20 September, 2016

Europe 2016

In September, 2016, we returned to Europe for two weeks in the Netherlands and France. Follow the "book navigation" links at left to read more about the trip, or click the map above to skip ahead to a location.

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By admin, 17 September, 2016

On dust mite faces and rotting human flesh

I've hesitated to publish this story because it's not flattering to someone that we know, but enough time has passed that I hope we can all laugh about it. We don't mean to poke fun, but it does make a good story.

By Ben, 16 April, 2016

Aguascalientes, Mexico

Spring Break, 2016, we celebrated my 40th year with a trip to visit my friend Javier and his family in Aguascalientes.

See an album of photos from the trip!

By Ben, 1 January, 2016

Newyearsletter 2016

Here is our annual newsletter and accompanying photo collage from January 2016.

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By Ben, 1 January, 2015

Newyearsletter 2015

Here's our annual letter and accompanying photo collage from 2015.

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By Ben, 12 October, 2014

Zen and the Art of Jim Henson

Years ago, I taught an informal class where I gave a quick summary of the plot of Robert M. Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which has never been made into a movie) and then made the case that Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal is in fact a movie adaptation of it. Since I know a number of people who have found Z&AMM too difficult to read, here is the breakdown:

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