Tag: photography
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Back to Santiago
We spent a few wonderful days in Melinka, and right before New Years we started the long journey back to Santiago. On to way to Melinka we sailed the Don Baldo and were able to explore the upper decks with nice (albeit cold) weather. On the way back to the mainland, however, we were on…
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Visiting Repollal Alto
On one of the days we spent in Melinka we drove to a nearby village called Repollal. It’s still on the island of Melinka but they have their own church and school (with about 10 students). The road that goes from Melinka’s center to Repollal is still fairly new and before it was built the…
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Que Lindo es Melinka
Melinka was a mystery to all of us before we arrived. Paula, Javier’s older sister, moved there several months ago for a job and we all decided to bring the family Christmas to her so we could experience life on this remote island. I asked Javier before we left for Chile what Melinka was like,…
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The boat to Melinka
Our next adventure in Chile began on Christmas eve when we drove to Quellón, Chiloe after fixing the battery of our van. Quellón is the port city where we boarded the ship Don Baldo, which transported all of us plus the van over to the island of Melinka. Nuestra siguiente aventura en Chile comenzo el…
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Parks and sunsets in Chiloe
On our second day in Castro, we headed to the national park located in a nearby town called Cucao. Chiloe itself is a big island and it hosts two gigantic, bright blue lakes lined with stony beaches: Lago Cucao and Lago Huillinco. The national park is between the lakes and the coast, about an hour…
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Visiting Dalcahue, Chiloe
On our first day in Castro we drove to a town nearby called Dalcahue. The Castro locals told us that the best “feria artesanal,” or craft fair, was in Dalcahue on Sundays and we happened to be there on Sunday, lucky us. It’s summer here but in the south it’s colder than in Santiago, so…
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Roadtripping to the South of Chile
On the day we arrived in Chile, we drove to Osorno and finally arrived at Javier’s aunt and uncles house ‘s 5 in the morning. His aunt and uncle have a beautiful home with a brand new back patio furnished with an outdoor grill that Javier studied for about an hour so he could learn…
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New Humming House Single / Music Video
Another event that was lost on this blog among the pressure to talk about kickstarter was the release of our brand new single “Fly On.” This was the first single we released with my voice on it and I love the song! Coinciding with the single release was the official video release, featuring the lovebirds…
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Rodriguez / McClure Thanksgiving
With all the excitement about the kickstarter and the pressure to continue posting about it we never wound up posting about our Thanksgiving!! This year was a little different than usual because grandma was out of town and we did Thanksgiving at home in Nashville rather than Louisville. We made a feast fit for 3…
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LAST CHANCE TO PRE-ORDER THE NEW HUMMING HOUSE ALBUM!
Sorry for all the monotony lately on the blog – we do have a ton of stuff to post on here from happenings of late but we are now facing the real “crunch time” to raise the $20,000 on the Humming House kickstarter! THERE IS LESS THAN ONE WEEK TO REACH OUR GOAL! If we don’t…
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Important Announcements from Humming House!
Dearest friends, If you didn’t know this already, I sing in a band called Humming House. I started singing with them back in February and went on a few small tour runs with them. In May I decided to halt my academic life for a bit and enter the touring / music world full time,…
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NYC, DC…and hockey
For the last three weeks I’ve been on the road with Humming House for the final leg of our Fall Forward Tour. We started off our time in NYC, staying one night with a friend in his apartment in Manhattan and then relocating to another friend’s loft in Brooklyn. The loft in Brooklyn had an…
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Baby Gia
Back in September the Humming House tour schedule took us up to Chicago where I got to spend two nights with Ian, Andrea and their sweet baby Gia. I still, still can’t believe I’m an aunt! I don’t think I’ve ever held such a small baby – I felt like I was going to break her. She’s…
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2013 TN State Fair
Alright, this is the last post in our state & county fair series, which is really an excuse to bring you adorable photos of farm animals. Then we’ll move on to more contemporary goings-on in the LRL of late. The last fair we went to was the most excellent TN State Fair, which we think Goldilocks would agree is “just…
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Wilson County Fair
This year we’re collecting fairs – we already wrote about our trip to the Williamson County Fair but we still have yet to post about our trips to the Wilson County Fair and the State Fair. Javi and I have gone to the TN State Fair every year since we first started dating, mostly to…
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Williamson County Fair
Every year Javier and I make a trip out to the TN State Fair, which is usually held in September. This year we decided that one fair wasn’t enough, so we decided to check out the Williamson County Fair to see what it was all about. For us, the fair is all about seeing the…
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‘Merica party
On April 19 I became an American citizen and for quite a while we planned on having a big America party to celebrate. We wanted to have as many family and friends at the party as possible, but due to vacation schedules, shows, gigs, work, etc…we couldn’t find a good time to have this party…
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Arrington Vineyards
A couple of weeks ago Javier and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon with friends at Arrington Vineyard. Like the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Arrington Vineyards was another Nashville favorite that Javier and I had never visited in our years living in this lovely city. Arrington is about a 40 minute drive outside of town and…
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THE FINISHED LANDSCAPE!
I still can’t believe we never posted about our finished landscape. After all that work and all those updates along the way – we never showed off the finished product! I think it was such an effort to do the landscaping that the thought of describing the final push to finish was too much to…
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Garden Update!
Lately thanks to all this rainfall our garden is starting to look great. This year we planted corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, basil, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, lettuce and spinach (but those were cold season crops so they are finished now), beets, radishes, sweet potatoes and strawberries. We also used half of a raised bed for cutting…
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