Andrea Ausmus

Planning to the Future

With the exception of another pandemic or earth shattering trouble we are planning our trip. With Meininger there are several locations in Europe to choose from. We used some fantastically green page markers (on the reverse so we could seal) each of our choices for possible destinations. And Paris won! Being the extremely excited personContinue reading “Planning to the Future”

Travel Solutions and the Future

With all of the fears of the global pandemic, we had decided to cancel travelling for 2020. With cancellations came the solutions from the companies we were working with. Icelandair Icelandair provided us with vouchers for the cost of the flight to use within the next three years. We took these happily we of courseContinue reading “Travel Solutions and the Future”

Covid-19 and Change of Plans

I am writing this a few days prior to the final grades of my final term of college. It is a significant change that I was planning on celebrating and mourning the end of a portion of my life. This was to be our six-week, fantabulously long, Europe trip. Unfortunately, the virus has complicated theContinue reading “Covid-19 and Change of Plans”

Bavaria

Past Present Polarity An Assignment for Arizona State University’s Course ENG 319 It started as a niggling feeling at the backside of my mind as I planned for the trip of a lifetime. My husband, James, and I were looking forward to two weeks in Bavaria – I swore I was not going to showContinue reading “Bavaria”

Start Your Sheet

We are planning a new family trip for the summer of 2020 as a congratulatory for my graduation in the spring. I have started planning this trip like the last, using Google Sheets. The reason that I use Sheets over Excel, or another spreadsheet tool, is the flexibility of the cloud share. I can accessContinue reading “Start Your Sheet”

2017 Travel Planning

In 2017, we set off in June to travel the United States. It was our second trip in our new motor home and we were very excited. Much to the chagrin of my husband, I had spent months planning the trip down to the day. He would have much rather have played the entire tripContinue reading “2017 Travel Planning”

Introductions

I am a mother of three boys. Let’s call them J1 (age 15), J2 (age 13), and J3 (age 10). Over the last several years we (as a family) have made it a mission to increase our world knowledge. To do this we are taking every opportunity to touch on cultural divides and differences toContinue reading “Introductions”