The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Category: Travel

  • Thoughts on Amish/Mennonites and Education

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    I walked into town. It was a perfect, crisp fall day. Everywhere I looked there were either Amish people, or people staring at the Amish. A big yellow school bus roared up the street. It was full of adorable Amish children, with their bonnets and bowl cuts, peeking out the windows. Now I was staring…

  • From Paris to Berlin

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    This weekend I packed all my belongings back into my little car, and drove north to Berlin Ohio. Yep. First it was Paris, and now Berlin. What’s next? London, Kentucky? Rome, Iowa? Ooh, I hear there’s a Mennonite community in Athens, Tennessee, although I was just in Tennessee. As I was returning my library books…

  • Tennessee, and Me

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    This is my last week in Paris, Tennessee, and I haven’t done a single blog post on my time spent here. This is partially because I’ve been prioritizing other writing projects, and partially because I realized, once I started trying to write about this place, that I don’t quite know the tone to strike when…

  • Fun Times in Texas

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    It was late when we got to Texas. Somewhere between 11 pm and midnight. Sarah Beth met us at the door, wearing PJ’s and a smile. “I just moved in today, so things might be a bit chaotic,” she said. Amy and I laughed. I guess it’s our lot in life to pop in on…

  • Adventures in Hutchinson Kansas

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    The first stop on our road trip was Hutchinson Kansas, to see our friend Heidi Mast. We go way back, Heidi Mast and I. She and her siblings were some of the first friends I ever made through the internet, in the mid-to-late aughts. Then Amy went to Bible School with her, and they became…

  • Reflections from The Road

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    Oof. September was a difficult and dizzying month. I have so many THOUGHTS about LIFE: Some that are blog-worthy, many that are not. Let me try to catch you up on the blog-worthy parts. On September 16, a Sunday morning, Amy and I headed east. The first rains of Fall were splattering our windshield, smearing…

  • Saying Goodbye

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    It’s been a busy, tough, strange week. But my journey has officially begun. I write this from the road. I said goodbye to friends, went to Church camp, and vacationed on the breathtaking southern Oregon coast. A dear friend gave birth to a healthy baby boy, while another couple of our dear friends gave birth…

  • Sarah Beth’s Wedding/Austin Texas

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    My dear, dear friend Sarah Beth…who I’ve adventured with at Island Lake, and in Portland, and in Bandon…who almost died three years ago…who converted me into a lover of personality assessments…THAT remarkably magical Sarah Beth Wilcoxson is now Sarah Beth Boyer. She was married, in Texas, last Friday. August 10. August 10 also happens to be…

  • Seattle, Part 2: Kindred Spirits

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    After exploring the city of Seattle alone for a while (read about that here), it was time to head to my friend Micaela’s house for dinner. Which meant taking the bus. As a country girl, public transportation always makes me a little nervous. This is where google maps saved me. I figured out that if…

  • Seattle, Part 1: Just Ask

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    My new life philosophy is “just ask.” When Elon Musk was a young man, he and his brother used to read the newspaper, looking for interesting people they wanted to meet. Then they’d call these people up and invite them to lunch. Surprisingly often, these people would agree. So Elon and his brother would ride…