vacation – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 10 Dec 2015 23:47:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 We adopted the habit https://orangette.net/2015/01/we-adopted-the-habit/ https://orangette.net/2015/01/we-adopted-the-habit/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:30:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/we-adopted-the-habit Oaxaca! As I said, I’m no expert, but I can tell you what I liked. I hear that some of you are hoping to travel there, and I hope what follows is helpful. This was our second time going on vacation with our friends Brandi and John. If you can find two people you enjoy and won’t want to stab after ten days in close quarters, I highly recommend it. Traveling with friends has allowed us to feel more bold, for better or worse, about long drives on mountainous roads in foreign countries, and about traveling without making a lot of plans, doing exhaustive research, or knowing the local language. Also, at the beach, two of us invariably want to…

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