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Author: Jamie Reddinger
Dates around Europe
Euro-one for me, babe! In our next installment of “Let’s Play Catch Up,” we bring you selfies of us on dates around Europe. We’ve recapped our life in China and gave you a teaser about this big Europe trip. Here’s another reminder why we were so pumped about this trip. As mentioned before, from China, Read More
Surviving Covid: The Home (All day, EVERY day) Edition
When Covid first broke out in 2020, we were on winter holiday in Vietnam. We eventually fled to Thailand in the hopes of surviving Covid from afar, waiting it out there from the safety of another country. After several months and what seemed like the worst of the Covid wave passing, we felt that we Read More
Top 5 Things from 2022
Where have we been? Everybody knows we lived in China until Covid made life more challenging than we wanted. Then we lost contact faster than it takes for PCR test results to come back. One of Jamie’s responsibilities for 2024 is writing consistently because she likes doing it and she’s pretty great. And she’s so, Read More
Locked up and locked in
I mentioned having feels and wanting to share them when I wrote this. Now I’m going waaaaay back to before we ever went to Belize or Turkey… does any of this sound familiar? Probably not! Again, that’s my bad. Read below to find out why we left China for Europe as soon as we were Read More
BIG recap
We’ve recently been traveling A LOT but blogging un poco (a little…) well actually, nunca (never.) So here’s a quick blog to catch you up in case you haven’t been following our Insta or FB. (Take a minute and click those links so you can like, follow, subscribe, vibe, groove…whatever the lingo is. Do Read More
I’ll see you onstage!
“I’ll see you onstage!” Those four words, “I’ll see you onstage,” hung in the air as the stranger smiled and walked away from us. I stood still, in shock, after Kim handed me the sleek, black envelope containing my Valentine’s Day surprise: tickets to Cirque du Soleil! Seeing a Cirque show together was on our Read More
Mission back to happy
Back home in Hangzhou What an experience this Mission Back to Happy has been! I write this from our “home town” of Hangzhou, specifically from our friend Charley’s apartment. Booker sprawled on our guest bed, happy to be stationary for more than a half hour. I’ve had two cups of coffee and I’m kicked back Read More
Jamie’s quarantine life: the home stretch
I do enjoy the home stretch (both going home and stretching) Sure, I love adventures. I like to try exciting and new things. If there’s a wacky food to try, I’ll take one. I am an explorer of new places and a social butterfly, meeting new people. If we want to go somewhere and aren’t Read More
Jamie’s quarantine life
When I told you about my solo trip to China, I mentioned we researched other people’s experiences. We listened to their stories and watched their videos. We joined group chats of people involved in various stages of immigration: some were preparing like me, some were just landing in Shanghai. Others just started quarantine life while Read More