Greetings from the Y Dacha in Yaroslavl, Russia! I’m a few days behind in updating from our #YMCARockies2Russia journey. We finally have reliable wifi. I’ll be short on words, but as they say… a picture speaks a thousand. Enjoy a small glimpse of what our group has seen. Day 2 in Moscow began with our group braving the Metro. Once…
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Hospitality Means Loving Strangers
I’m not really a short cut kind of girl. I’m afraid I’ll miss something exciting in my haste. Plus, I have a serious, perhaps incurable, case of wanderlust. It’s in remission now, but I spent my coming-of-age years collecting passport stamps until the pages were smudged with foreign ink and my journals were threadbare and full of stories. My wanderlust…
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YMCA Rockies 2 Russia Partnership
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ~ Maya Angelou The countdown to our #YMCARockies2Russia trip continues. Today, I’m honored to have Julie Watkins, Vice President of Association Advancement of the YMCA…
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