Adventure in the Land of Banks & Cuckoo Clocks
Last month I posted on Colonel Andrea Thompson’s blog, Andrea’s Adventures, Andrea is a South Dakotan serving in Afghanistan. My niece Deb Peterson has also been blogging from across the pond and her adventures are quite interesting even if not as fast paced and important as Colonel Thompson's.
Deb’s husband is a graphic designer, programmer, and executive type with Google. I am not sure exactly what Josh does but let’s just says he’s high tech and good at it! Last May Josh was transferred to Zurich, Switzerland where Google has it office for European operations.
The Petersons have at this point no other family than Stella the Pug, their mutt. They must love Stell because they spent nearly 3 grand to take her with them. I expect there’s another 3K involved to get Stella back to the States if they decide to return.
This is their European adventure and in four and one half months they seem to travel nearly every weekend. They have been (and this is not an all inclusive list) to Paris, Stockholm, Hamburg and other points. Several weeks ago Deb did two countries in one day (lunch in Lichtenstein and drinks in Austria).
To chronicle their adventures they are blogging at Peterthals (a combination of Peterson / Rosenthal). It is an engaging and wonderfully presented blog. (Why wouldn’t it be? – he works on websites at Google).
Recently one of Deb’s posts was picked up by another Expat’s (expatriate) blog, Onebigyodel.com, who lauded it for cleverness. It is a very good blog (certainly I am prejudiced) and I look forward to every update.
What really touches me about this blog as well as Col. Thompson’s is how geographically dispersed and occupationally diversified our children’s generation has become from our own; Both economically and culturally. Among other reasons it is because of great advances in technology resulting in improvements in transportation and communications (including the Internet, blogs and even video chats and live video conferencing). Deb live chats frequently (approaching daily) over (surprise) Google Chat with her Mom and Dad.
The world has changed and continues to change (very very fast). Our challenge is to adapt with it.
Check out their blog. www.peterthals.com
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Just saying hello while I read through the posts
hopefully this is just what im looking for looks like i have a lot to read.