Years ago, I flew through the airport in Amsterdam and saw all the pretty tulips. The Netherlands is the tulip capital of the world. I decided then that I wanted to return and ride my bike through the fields of tulips. My dream came true a [...]
Here in the Loire Valley, mushrooms are grown in dark and humid caves. I would ride my Juiced bike to the caves for several days to see the beautiful mushrooms. Over millions of years, there has been limestone buried under the ocean. As the ocean receded, [...]
Whenever I travel, my mind flashes back to my favorite class at Brigham Young University. As I neared my senior year, I missed taking a class in the nutrition department. The only class that I could work into my schedule was one on foods from around [...]
Learning about food from around the world was my favorite class in college. Taking the class just whet my appetite to travel. After graduation and teaching home economics at Orem Jr. High, I decided to go to Europe . Back then we followed a book entitled [...]
Photos by Dian Thomas and Blaine Hobbes; article by Marv Hoole Marvelous varieties of tulips, and the other principal bulb flowers of crocuses, daffodils, and hyacinths, are grown privately and commercially all over The Netherlands. Their commercial cultivation, however, takes place mainly in Holland — the [...]
My love for travel began when I was just five years old. My father was a forest ranger in Monticello, Utah. I remember going on many short trips over the Abajo Mountains, but the first big trip I remember was to Yellowstone National Park. I used [...]
In 2017, my good friend, Dale Majors, asked me if I wanted to take a bike ride in France with his family. Because I love biking, I instantly accepted his invitation. About six months before the trip, we made serious plans. Preparing to go on a [...]
For me reading is and has always been a challenge. I can remember when I was about seven, I was out feeding my pet lamb a bottle of warm milk. I loved watching my baby lamb as she eagerly drank the warm milk I prepared for [...]
We landed in Amsterdam that morning (Feb. 26, 2014) on our way to South Africa. This was a return to the city that I traveled to when I took my first flight in an airplane. I had just finished teaching my first year at Orem [...]
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