Tag: travel
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Visiting Leadville, CO
On day 1 of our belated honeymoon, Javi and I woke up at 7:30 and had coffee and a homemade breakfast that our B&B host Connie prepared. One of the items in the breakfast buffet was a warm loaf of craisin applesauce bread that I instantly fell in love with. It seemed homemade so I…
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Travel Ups and Downs
On the morning we left for Colorado Javier and I got to the airport extra early because we didn’t know how long the lines would be, but we were through security 2 hours before our flight took off. We congratulated ourselves on having plenty of time to spare once we got to the gate (with…
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Quick Trip to Monteagle
Over the weekend Javier and I drove to Monteagle with the doggos to do some hiking on the Fiery Gizzard trail. The idea was to break in our hiking boots before our Colorado trip and to try out some new hiking trails in TN. We’ve already hiked most of the greenways and trails around Nashville,…
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Los Rodriguez Life on TV!
Back in June we posted about our experience with NPR’s StoryCorps, which was subsequently featured on HispanicNashville.com. Shortly after we showed up on Hispanic Nashville, News Channel 5’s Que Pasa Nashville contacted us about doing a segment on the blog, featuring our trip to StoryCorps. Que Pasa Nashville is a half-hour program that features stories from…
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Cali days and Driftwood Surf Club nights
This week I’m on vacation in California and my brain has totally shut down. I finished working on a couple of big projects last week before I left for Cali and right now even writing coherently on the blog requires a superhuman brainpower effort that I’m sure will leave me with just enough energy to…
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Chicago Trip 2012!
This past weekend was amazing in every way. On Thursday afternoon, once we finally corralled my parents out of the house, we took off for Chicago for the weekend. The drive was surprisingly short and we got up there in time to grab dinner with Ian and Andrea at a little Mexican restaurant 10 steps…
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Crazy August
We’re closing in on the last few weeks of summer and we’re packing a ton of stuff into the last couple of weeks. I think we planned our summer this way anticipating that I’d be completely finished with my thesis by now…well, it was a nice dream. Actually I’m so close to finishing that I…
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California – We Miss You
Well well well. Javi and I just got back from California and I’m pining the loss of 65 degree weather. You better believe I enjoyed every minute of leggings-and-sweatshirt weather while we were there…and it was a great weekend to get away from Nashville since it was a record-breaking 109 on Friday! I doubt even…
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Family Road Trip!
I never got a chance to write about our road trip home with my parents after Jennifer and Daniel’s wedding in Birmingham but it was a pretty fun time! So here goes. On Sunday morning we decided to make a couple of “must do while in Birmingham” stops. I mentioned before that my dad spent…
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Happy anniversary Tara and Jorge!
Back in January I posted about my incredible study abroad experience in Santiago de Compostela in 2006. Aside from that one 6-month trip I’ve been back to Santiago de Compostela twice – once for two months in the summer of 2007 to visit friends and do the Camino for my senior thesis and again in…
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And our vacation destination is…
We’re going to Colorado!! So first, thank you to EVERYONE who commented, texted and e-mailed us ideas about vacation destinations – we have about 50 ideas for future vacations and every single one of them sounds awesome. I know we originally said that the west side of the country was out of the question, but…
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Help us pick a vacation destination!
Alright you guys. Javi and I need some serious help. We FINALLY saved up enough money to take a little vacation (as in, about 4 days of vacation, since we can’t afford to put the dogs in the kennel longer than that). But I think I’ll finish my dissertation before we ever actually decide on…
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Semana Santa in the South of Spain
Six years ago I spent Semana Santa, or Holy Week, traveling the south of Spain with my good friend Camila. She and I had a week off from classes and decided to take a train down to Malaga, Granada and Sevilla for one of the best and most beautiful weeks of my entire study abroad…
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Aiyeshley’s off to D.C.!
Our friend Ashley (not really spelled Aiyeshley – but that’s another story for probably never) is moving to D.C. this week! I still can’t believe she’s leaving – well, it’s very believable that she got a great job and will be happy in D.C. with her boyfriend Dylan, but I can’t believe she won’t be…
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Now it’s just us…
Well, the house is now pretty empty. It’s back to just the 4 of us – Javi and me and the pupsters. Yesterday was the first day in a month that I came home to an empty house (with the exception of the doggos) – no Paula knitting on the couch, no Mery crocheting by…
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The first Santiago
I have traveled to two Santiagos: Santiago, Chile and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The first Santiago I went to, the one that started me along the strange path that eventually led to an interest in Brazil, Portuguese, Latin America, a handsome Chilean, Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt and finally Sociology at Vanderbilt, was Santiago de…
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Batteries recharged!…now back to the grind
Our vacation is over. Tomorrow we are going back to work, school and the regular schedule…it’s inevitable, but looking back we had a blast and our “batteries” have been recharged! Nuestras vacacioes han terminado. Manana volvemos al trabajo, las clases, y la rutina regular…es inevitable, pero mirando hacia atras lo pasamos muy bien y nuestras…
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Cowboys and Huasos
Yesterday Javi and I spent the day as tourists in our own city. We went to Room in the Inn for a couple hours to do a tour of the new building – Macarena is a social worker in Chile and was hoping to take some of the ideas from RITI back to Santiago. It’s…
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Los Rodriguez Wedding #2
Dec. 26 was our second second anniversary, but we only celebrate the 12/12 anniversary. Javier and I hopped on a plane to Chile two days after our first wedding to head down to prepare for Christmas there and our second wedding the day after Christmas. My mom, dad and brother also came down, which was…
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A door named Apocalipsis
Things have been pretty crazy with the whole Rodriguez family in town! We’ve mostly spent our time relaxing together, cooking, shopping and enjoying each other’s company. Right now, Javier’s mom Meri is wildly happy cleaning our house with our brand new steam cleaner – she LOVES it, and I love that our house looks and…
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