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Category Archives: Travel

ski week

March.17.2017by Kim Connally Leave a comment

Each year the kids get one week of in February off for a week of skiing. Last year we were stoked to just be home and continued getting settled. This […]

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Family, France, Friends, ski, The French Alps, Travel

christmas travels

February.10.2017by Kim Connally Leave a comment

Yes, we are those crazy people who have three small children and decide to fly them across the world over Christmas break to be with our family. First of all, […]

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Family, Switzerland, Travel

The Divonne Sunday Market and Yvoire, France

May.12.2016by Kim Connally Leave a comment

This was the first Mother’s Day I spent with my mom is years.

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Family, France, Nyon, Switzerland, Travel, Yvoire

a girls’ weekend in paris

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First and most importantly I need to thank my BFF, Rachel, and her awesome husband for making this weekend totally happen without the stress. Patrick was going to hang with the […]

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Foreign Service, France, Paris, Travel

a look at two 20% hardship posts

December.7.2014by Kim Connally 4 Comments

Manila is 20% hardship, Yaounde is 20% hardship. Having lived in both places, I think I know what the reality is between the two posts. Yes, people have to leave […]

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Cameroon, Foreign Service, Hardship Differential, Manila, Travel

bangkok

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Back in April we finally left the Philippines. It’d been 9 months since we’d left that country! That’s the longest I’d ever been in one place  without traveling outside a […]

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Bangkok, Thailand, Travel

phuket

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After spending a few nights in Bangkok we flew down to Phuket to meet up with some good friends we lived with in Yaounde. We caught our shuttle from the airport […]

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Puket, Thailand, Travel

buri resort and spa take 2

June.23.2014by Kim Connally Leave a comment

My very dear friends, Lorraine and her daughter Elise, came to visit us during Lorraine’s spring break from teaching. (Yes, I wrote this back in March and I’m just getting […]

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Philippines, Puerto Galera, Travel

baguio round 2

May.13.2014by Kim Connally Leave a comment

Again, I wrote this back in January… Here are the specifics for our drive this last time: 5:00 PM Leave Embassy 6:15 PM FINALLY get onto NLEX (6 miles away […]

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Baguio, Philippines, Travel

corregidor

March.8.2014by Kim Connally Leave a comment

My mom left Manila on February 4th and my in-laws arrived February 6th.  It was really nice to have them come right after my mom left to soften the blow […]

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Philippines, Travel

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Welcome

I wasn't sold on this name for my blog. After all, I'm much more than just a diplomat's wife. However, Patrick's desire to be a diplomat is the reason we have been living the way we have been for the past 5 years; the reason we left all our family and friends on the west coast for Patrick to attend grad school to prepare for the Foreign Service Exam. He passed in January of 2010 and started A-100 in September. In March 2011 we left for our first post, Yaounde Cameroon, life has not been the same since. In this blog I will attempt to provide you with some insight into our lives that will, hopefully, make you realize that the world is a huge place with lots of people who need to be loved and cared for. But even in it hugeness we can still make a difference by loving our families and neighbors whether you're a diplomat's wife, a housewife in little Walla Walla or an executive in Washington.

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Currently Living

Geneva, Switzerland (September 2015 - 2018)

Previous Posts:

Manila, Philippines June 2013 - May 2015 Yaounde, Cameroon March 2011 - March 2013

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