Category: People
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Refugee or Pioneer
Today is Pioneer day and a holiday here in Utah. It marks the entry of the saints into the Salt Lake Valley and coincidentally the day I arrived home from my two year mission. It is an auspicious day, indeed. I’ve learned that some Utahns are near sick of the pioneer stories and one can […]
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Lanka “Respected Island”
I dreamed of traveling to many places while living in the Middle East. Though WE didn’t get to very many places, we did get to a few. Most recently we returned from Sri Lanka. We had a very quick, 7 day trip. A place like Sri Lanka really deserves more time to see all the […]
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Northern Musandam: Wadi Khasab
Days of rest are many here in the UAE. June 6th is as of now (May 20th of this year) a national holiday here in the UAE called Al Isra’a Wal Miraj in Arabic, الإسراء والمعراج. It is taught in the Quran to be the day that the Prophet Muhammed traveled to Jerusalem from Mecca […]
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Adventures of a different sort
Our typical sort This last Saturday we set out on our latest adventure. Our friends the Andersons, Palmers and Queros joined us on a dhow cruise along the northeast coast of Oman, Musandam. A dhow is a “A lateen-rigged ship with one or two masts, used in the Indian Ocean” though ours was powered by motor not […]