{"id":807,"date":"2010-11-26T05:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T05:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2010-11-26T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T05:27:23","slug":"the-winner-of-the-rhineland-farm-homestead-emporium-give-away-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/the-winner-of-the-rhineland-farm-homestead-emporium-give-away-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The winner of the Rhineland Farm, Homestead Emporium give away is…"},"content":{"rendered":"
The question for the give away was:<\/strong><\/div>\n

Where in the world are you now, and where else have you traveled? If you\u2019re so inclined, share what you\u2019ve learned from what you\u2019ve seen\/done while traveling!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I said I’d share my answer, so here it is.<\/p>\n

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I’ve had the pleasure of doing quite a bit of travelling in my 39 years of life. It started when I was very young and we moved from the Netherlands to Alberta, Canada when I was just two years old. From there, when I was 11 we moved to BC, Canada. In the meantime, while I was growing up, since all our family lived in the Netherlands, we would take turns going back to Holland about every 4 years.<\/p>\n

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One time, when I\u00a0traveled\u00a0with my father to Holland, he swapped seats with some people in first class. They were the Harlem Globe Trotters! I was left with them since I was only 7 and not allowed in first class. Isn’t that neat?!<\/p>\n

When I was about 15 my parents, my younger sister and I\u00a0traveled by car\u00a0all the way from the BC Canada coast to Tijuana Mexico and everything in between! \u00a0We drove through Washington,\u00a0Oregon\u00a0and California.<\/p>\n

When I was 18 I moved to the Netherlands for one year. While there I\u00a0traveled\u00a0within the Netherlands some, also visited the “disco” in Belgium quite often, went for a weekend to Germany and another short trip to Paris France by bus.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after I came back, I met my husband who was in the Canadian Navy. We traveled through Canada from British Columbia to Ontario so I could meet his parents, going through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and all the way through one end of Ontario to the other. Once we were married, we moved to Ontario and took the same trip once again. Since that time we’ve made that trip quite a few times. I can tell you it’s almost exactly 3000 miles and it takes almost exactly 60 hours of driving. The last time we did this drive, I was 4.5 months pregnant with our twins (but didn’t know there was more then one in there at the time!), our middle child was 16 months old and our eldest two were just 5 and 7! We’ve always been short on cash and big on adventure! During that trip we stopped in Toronto, Niagara Falls, a big Zoo in Saskatchewan and anything else we could do with minimal funds! We even spent a couple of nights sleeping in our van. Ha!<\/p>\n

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Yes, we are adventurous… (some may call us other things, but ask us if we really care…?)<\/em><\/p>\n

During all my travels, I’ve learned that I am who I am and no matter where I am, that never changes unless I want it to and work hard to make that change.
\nI’ve also learned that everyone else is who they are, and most people are the same everywhere you go. There’s nice people, nasty people, happy people, grumpy people, easy going people, and\u00a0whiny\u00a0people, generous people and stingy people and it DOES NOT MATTER where I’ve come from or where they’ve come from, they are who they are.<\/p>\n

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I have also learned I can either greet all these people with a smile, or a frown, and that may just make a world of difference in how they respond to me… or it might not… but in either case it makes ME feel a whole lot better about me, and who I am, and that’s the only person I need to really be concerned about!<\/p>\n

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As for where am I now? On the west coast of Canada, Vancouver Island in Beautiful British Columbia!<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who shared! I REALLY enjoyed reading every single entry! It’s a lot of fun getting to know each of you a little better! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question for the give away was: Where in the world are you now, and where else have you traveled? If you\u2019re so inclined, share what you\u2019ve learned from what you\u2019ve seen\/done while traveling! I said I’d share my answer, so here it is. I’ve had the pleasure of doing quite a bit of travelling […]<\/p>\n

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