Grace on Pace

17/06/2017

This was the tail end of our Israel long weekend through the land of the great monotheistic religions.

15/11/2016

Its finally official...we are heading to Ankara

You get to pour your eyes over a list of places where you could spend the next 2, 3 or 4 years of your lives. The end goal is a Foreign Service Handshake.

02/10/2016

Somehow with two babies back at home still in diapers, I’m spending an evening in an Oktoberfest beer hall.

23/06/2016

As always, they practice their English on me and I learn that today is the Lithuanian Užgavėnės Celebration or Shrove Tuesday – a festival escorting winter.

05/06/2016

I didn’t really know what to expect on the flight down to our North Caicos babymoon vacation.

24/01/2016

We emerged this morning from our Washington DC Blizzard 2016 shelter to check out the full wrath had left on the DC metro area.

24/01/2016

Our Digital Holiday Card of Sorts....

Having been afforded the chance to represent Americans, I feel privileged to travel as much as I do.  Here are some of our travel highlights of 2015...

21/01/2016

On our final weekend together, we ventured south from Berlin into Bavaria to visit the Neuschwanstein Castle and Salzburg, Austria

13/01/2016

For our first side trip during our long-term stay in Germany, we decided to rent a car and self drive Berlin to Prague for the weekend.

12/01/2016

Exploring more slowly during our holiday season in Berlin allowed us to form a stronger connection to the place we were visiting.

01/01/2016

On our second weekend in Berlin, we decided to visit Poland by renting a car and driving south for a Krakow and Auschwitz Birkenau Weekend Trip.

27/10/2015

Last week I traveled to Sarajevo to support a warehouse under construction. History was inescapable when I rented a car to self drive Sarajevo to Dubrovnik.

16/09/2015

At the end of August, projects in Lyon and Brussels allowed me to revisit the region, giving me the chance to see France and Belgium with a new set of eyes.

12/08/2015

Our paths aligned once more, with a Netherlands Trip to the Randstad Belt for a New Embassy Campus project.

26/03/2015

A kids photo travel journal to Egypt authored by a 9 year old girl on her first trip outside the USA.

25/03/2015

An Egyptian photo journal set to Shelley's "Ozymandias"

06/01/2015

Tomorrow SpaceX is landing a reusable rocket on a Drone spaceport ship in the Atlantic Ocean. If all goes well, Elon will have essentially made Space travel 100 times cheaper... http://youtu.be/AcaBI_I0Td0

Relive SpaceX’s 2014 highlights: launching rockets, landing stages, and unveiling our next generation crewed spacecraft.

03/01/2015

Despite there being many signs before now that this change is actually real, receiving my official Foreign Service Travel Orders doesn't get any more real.

22/12/2014

A quick clip of some of the projects I will be working on at my new job...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kiYNdiVYI

28/11/2014

Finally finished this one last night...will probably have to redo it though in January...we decided to take Esmei to Egypt with her cousin Layla and uncle Ryan...first time on a plane for Layla...she should be able to get a week off from School...the pyramids are educational right???

Consisting of everything from individual monuments to entire complexes, our 10 favorite historical places are some of the most stunning places on earth.

17/11/2014

Its way to early to tell, but deciding to join the Foreign Service as a Construction Engineer will mean raising Esmei as a third culture kid.

12/11/2014

I decided to a post on one my long lost friends Danielle Renée Johnston from High School...she has a very cool job!

The country, known as the "land of a thousand hills," is one of the most beautiful countries I have visited. The greenery is indescribable and is hard to capture in photos.

10/11/2014

I am officially on the Register!

It's fantastic to have made it this far in the process, but without knowing exactly how many positions State is looking to fill this year, being ranked fourth on the Resiter is a bit unsettling.

10/11/2014

Just received notice that I am ranked 4 of 6 on the register...fingers crossed they choose at least 4 new hires...

"Oops...you forgot to grab your brief case," said the assessor. The thin manila envelope that he was carrying also looked a lot like the one that contained the rejection letter for my previous att...

06/11/2014

First of all, the tale gate had to be propped up by a stick, setting a mousetrap style guillotine for anyone who accidentally bumps it.

28/10/2014

Temples, Beaches, Great Walls, Monasteries, Tigers, and Elephants Five Weeks (January 30th – March 3rd, 2014) Since most international airlines fly to Bangkok, we decided to book a flight with a co...

24/10/2014

10. Boulders Beach, South Africa This beach, with its wind sheltered bays and safe sandy shores, is home to a breeding colony of over 2000 endangered African Penguins. 9. Punaluu Black Sand Beach, ...