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Helen-a German Gem at the Foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
To stay away from the cold we spent the winter in Florida. At some point we went to visit some friends who told us about the small town of Helen, a small German-themed town in Georgia at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. We were told to definitely go and...
3 Days at Yosemite
(watch our video here) Mount Shasta from the road as we entered California At the beginning of October we headed into California. We had to rush through to go to a conference in Phoenix and did not have enough time to see everything we wanted to see. But we still...
We Are Visiting Mount Hood
(our video is on YouTube, Mt Hood starts at 13:21) Mirror Lake with Mount Hood in the background On our travels South along the West coast we spend about a month in Washington before we entered Oregon. Mount Rainier (YouTube) was our favorite hike possibly on our...
Playing with Figs
Last week, it was the beginning of September, I walked into Trader Joe's and picked up, among other things, a container of black mission figs. In my opinion those are the mostdelicious figs you can get. They were brought to California by Franciscan missionaries. With...
Crater Lake
At the end of July we arrived in Washington state so we made the trip from Florida to the opposite side of the country. It felt like a little achievement.(Un)fortunately we had spent way more time in Idaho than we had planned so that we had to rush down the West coast...
Blackberry & Apple Cobbler
Last year in August we arrived in Washington State. We were happily surprised to find an abundance of blackberries. The children loved them and went picking every day. All of the berries were eaten right away of course. One day we decided to pick a lot and make a...
Tacos – We All Love Them!!
Tacos are one of the most fun ways of eating. You can put in them whatever you like and leave out what you don't. Back in Germany I only knew tacos from fast food stores and was not very impressed. I never had the fortune of traveling to Mexico and eating them there...
Caponata
One of my favorite side dishes in the summer is Caponata. Eggplant is one of the most versatile vegetables.Yet it is usually under used for its potential.It is relatively bland but will absorb a lot of flavors. The dish comes from Sicily and has some Arabic...
Mushroom Foraging in Oregon
Our travels along the West Coast took us through Oregon, both along the coast and the Cascade mountains. Somewhere at a beach in Oregon Most of the foraged mushrooms I ordered as a chef in Virginia and Pennsylvania came from Oregon, so I was excited to get to...
Boondocking at Joshua Tree National Park
After visiting Phoenix for a LV conference we decided to spend some of the winter in Southern California.There are a few Thousand Trail RV parks in Southern Arizona but they are all age limited (55+). So we decided to go back to Southern California where there are a...
Hiking Mount Rainier with our Children
There are 8 active volcanoes in the cascade mountains, the most famous one probably Mount Saint Helens after it's eruption in 1980.The Tallest one is Mount Rainier with a height of 14,410 feet.We were between Mt Rainier and Mt Saint Helens at a campground and decided...
Burning Desire is the Start of New Beginnings.
Had the most epic day hiking around Mt. Rainier in Washington State! It is breathtakingly beautiful, with the snowcapped mountain tops, flowing brooks, waterfalls from melting snow, a pristine view of the Cascade mountains, abundant wildflowers, tall pines, blue...
Interview with Dr. Christina, a Cellular + Molecular Biologist on Post Vaccine Protocol for Detox and Healing
Today I had the privilege to sit down with my favorite nootropic drink and talk Dr. Christina Parks, who received her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan in 1999, on how we can detox and heal from vaccine injury, especially the...
Is The Rosary An Assault Weapon?
Recently a left-wing media outlet published an article brandishing the Rosary an assault weapon.The author and editor and all of the main stream media and radical left-wing politicians are portraying Catholics, and Christiansin general, as a radical group that is...
87,000 New IRS Agents and How You Can Legally Save $4k -$8k in Taxes by Having a Home-Based Business.
In the ever increasing and expanding, non-sensical and tyrannical government overreaches, we now have 87,000 new IRS agents who will "use deadly force if necessary" to harass citizens of their hard-earned money. Now is as good a time as any to remind the general...