GlobeHoppers

...two adults and... wow this gets complicated: One 24yo, one new graduate on her first gig, one Marine, and one college 2nd year.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

The first step in making any decision.

Read read read.

Foreign Service Journal article on working and living in Iraq.


Blogs from the Department of State.

Editorial Cartoon from Washington Times, June 2 followed by John Naland's reply to the Washington Times Editorial Cartoon:
"Your Monday editorial cartoon showing a group of U.S. Foreign Service members holding signs saying "Heck no, we don't want to go" [to serve in the war on terror] does not reflect reality."


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The GlobeHoppers

Stateside for now.

We're a Foreign Service family formerly posted for 3 years to Frankfurt, Germany after having spent 2 years in Manila, Philippines, 1 year in Lome', Togo (no, not Tonga), 3 years in Chennai, India, (3 years in Virginia), and 4 years in Amman, Jordan. Ian and I were supposed to go to Baghdad together in 2019, but that changed and Ian went on alone. He returned in May 2020 in the midst of the epidemic, and here we are now.

I am a former Army brat (lived in Belgium, Zaire, Algeria, Niger, visited too many places to list), now Foreign Service spouse. I tag along where ever Ian takes us and try to keep the family sane. Between 1996 when we got married and 2003 when we moved to Manila we lived in Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, and Florida, and visited several other states.

Since 2003 as a family we have been to:

Manila & Cebu & Bohol & Palawan, Philippines - 2003-2005
Singapore, Singapore - multiple times
Hong Kong - Easter 2004
Bangkok & Chiang Mai, Thailand - 2004
New Zealand, both islands - Summer 2004
Sydney, Australia - Summer 2004
Lome', Togo - 2005-2006
Accra, Ghana - 2006
Chennai - 2006-2009
Jaipur & Pushkar & Agra & New Delhi, India - Oct 2006
Cochin, Kerala, India - 2007
Brussels & USA & Beijing & KL - Round the World winter 2007-2008
Colombo, Sri Lanka - 2008
Amman, Jordan - 2012-2016
Hungerford & London & Reading, England - Summer 2013
Cardiff, Wales - Summer 2013
Fanore & Inis Oirr & Dublin, Ireland - Summer 2013
Jerusalem - Thanksgiving, Nov 2013
Cairo, Egypt - Dec 2013
Prague, Czech Republic - Christmas, Dec 2014
Strangford, Northern Ireland - Summer 2015
Edinburgh, Scotland - Summer 2015
Back to London, England - Summer 2015
Tel Aviv and Moscow - October 2015 (I, M, and N)
Vienna, Austria - Christmas, December 2015
Frankfurt, Germany - 2016-2019
Cork, Ireland - Oct 2016 (parents and boys to visit Katherine during her semester abroad)
Dublin - July 2017 (all of us to visit Katherine during internship)
Luxembourg - November 2017 (parents and boys, Thanksgiving)
Paris - Dec 2017 (Ian took Rebecca for a weekend)
London - Hamilton! - March 2018
Budapest, Hungary - May 2018 (Ian and Nicholas)
Essex/Sussex, England - June 2018 (Ian, Michele, Becca, Jonathon)
Back to Copenhagen - Oct 2018 (Ian and Nicholas)
Geneva, Switzerland - Dec 2018
Krakow, Poland - April 2019 (I, M, J)
London - Sept 2019 (M, J)

Parents Only:
Istanbul, Turkey - Feb 2015 (with friends)
Paris, France - Mar 2015 (we won free flights!)
Back to London again - November 2015 (grandma came too for the Dr. Who Festival)
South Ari Atoll, Maldives - May 20th Anniversary Trip 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark - March 2017
Antananarivo, Madagascar - March 2017
Johannesburg & Pretoria SA - March 2017
Berlin - May 21st Anniversary Trip 2017
Copenhagen (again) - October 2017 (with a lunch in Sweden)
Bruges - January 2018 (Christmas present!)
Wroclaw, Poland - October 2018
Copenhagen (again) - March 2019 (with an escape room in Sweden)
London - Feb 2020 (to see Jonathon at university)


Rebecca traveled to Oman with chorus (2013), Ethiopia with Week Without Walls (WWW 2014), Qatar with swimming (2014) and volleyball (2015), and Kuwait with basketball (2016). She also went to Amsterdam in 2017 for a weekend.

Rebecca and Nicholas traveled through Vietnam on WWW 2015 and Thailand for WWW 2016.

Katherine went to Kuwait with volleyball (2014) and France with WWW 2014, and did a semester abroad in Cork, Ireland in 2016. She's was in Dublin for her university internship summer 2017.

Jonathon went to Kuwait with Academic Games (2015) and had a school trip to Berlin (2016). He had a week of canoeing in Sweden in summer 2017, and a week of snowboarding in Austria in 2018. He's now at University in the UK.

Nicholas went to Norway with the Marines (2020).

Ian has been to Ethiopia (2006), Benin (2006), South Korea (2004), Liberia (2016), Central African Republic (2016), Cameroon (2016), Algeria (2017), Morocco (2017), Tunisia (2017), Turkmenistan (2017), Suriname (2018), Brunei (2018), Auckland NZ (2018). He also covers Sanaa and Tripoli (no travel there), Copenhagen and Accra. Ian aided after the Mumbai Massacre (2008), and also went to Bangalore and Hyderabad in India. A life goal for him is to serve in Russia or Canada, or really any place that has a decent hockey scene. He spent Jun2e 2019-May2020 in Baghdad.

It's a GlobeHopper world.

Oh, and checkout our Escape Room adventures! (updated Sept 2020)

The actual GlobeHoppers

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