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Cherry Blossoms on the National Mall
Sometimes when you’re traveling with others via offspring tourism or with friends, you have to break with the program, or work around it,...

Laura Peters
Apr 23, 20222 min read
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When the Scenic Route Hits a Road Block
In 2019, my daughter, Rebecca, and I flew from Leh, Ladakh to Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, both in India. If we had thought the security...

Laura Peters
Feb 12, 20223 min read
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Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri
In 2012, my middle daughter, Claire, had arranged to spend the year studying Japanese in Sapporo, Japan. Since I had never been to Japan...

Laura Peters
Feb 3, 20222 min read
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Sometimes You Don’t Ram the Mercedes
I have no idea why I woke up thinking about the day my daughter, Rebecca, did not ram into her father’s Mercedes as she backed out of the...

Laura Peters
Feb 1, 20223 min read
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It All Started with a TV Ad
By the time I was six years old I was captivated by the idea of far away lands. A babysitter I had was an elderly woman from Switzerland....

Laura Peters
Jan 16, 20221 min read
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