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This was the first full year in our lovely new Charleston home. Last year was the chaos of moving. And the thrill of discovering our new chosen city. We bought the yearly county park pass (a total flop) and then the yearly state park pass (a total win). But everything was “fish out of water”Continue reading “Christmas 2024 – Myanmar (formerly Burma)”

Well, we moved. After 22 beautiful years in Tennessee, we moved to a brand new city. Beautiful sun-drenched Charleston, South Carolina. We had been coming here for over a decade and knew we loved it. The vote came down to Charleston, Sarasota, Florida (beautiful tiny city on the gulf side in central Florida), and AmeliaContinue reading “Christmas 2023 – Low Country Vegan”

The Covid continues. Son of a biscuit! Every month we keep thinking it is over. And then some news report comes out that says, “DANGER, covid is going to break into your house, steal your underwear, and kick your dog.” So we plod onward. Christmas got cancelled this year. AGAIN. Out of abundance of caution.Continue reading “Christmas 2021 – Chile”

So, we were knocking about the house. bored out of our mind. I mean, we all were. Thanks Covid! The governor had “kind of” restricted us to our homes. Well, sort of. He suggested it and then had deferred power to the local town mayors. Many of whom were elected with just a few thousandContinue reading “Christmas 2020 – Special Covid Edition – Haiti”

You might be wondering how we came to choose the Czech Republic for our international cook this year. We were sitting on a park bench ruminating about the meaning of life and why a midnight tweet can make our 401k drop by 50 points, when suddenly we said, “why not slavic this year?” Now whenContinue reading “Christmas 2019 – Czech Republic”

Behold, our 7th annual Christmas day international cook. We decided to try our hands at something we had never done before. Countries in the running included Russia (don’t even get me started), Czech Republic (see, I wanted to say Prague, but my beautiful and correct wife kept saying, “that’s a city not a country”, soContinue reading “Christmas 2018 – Ethiopia”

Some damn fine Korean cooking made proudly in Nashville, Tennessee. Yum yum come get you some.

China is exciting.  Let’s face it.  You can’t say China without just going for it.  Try it now.  Go on.  I will wait.   <hmmmmm hmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm>.   Oh boy, wasn’t that fun?  CHINA!!! We had no idea what we were getting into with a Chinese menu.  They make it look so easy in the dadgum restaurants. Continue reading “Christmas 2016 – CHINA”

Germany.  Those crazy kids to the east.  Or west depending on where you are standing on the globe.  To get into the proper mindset, my wife and I built one of the strongest economies in the world.   Then we acted very friendly to everyone else while all the while secretly feeling very smug about it. Continue reading “Christmas 2015 – Deutschland”