Home leave in the Adirondacks

North America » United States
August 2nd 1986

Published: September 27th 2011

This would be our second home leave after moving to Brussels. This would be first time that Tamara, who was born on 26 January, would see the rest of her family in the States. She had met her grandmothers; both Linda and my Mom's right after she was born, as they had come in sequential visits to help Linda recover from walking pneumonia shortly after Tamara was born. Tamara had seen Uncle... Read Full Entry

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Bob Carlsen

Home and Away

I started blogging on Travelblog in 2009, entering trips beginning in 2007. My intention has always been to document my years of travel since my birth...how else was I to save all the slides my Dad took of my childhood! Most bloggers write about their trips away from home. Mine, and eventually Linda's, homes have usually been where people travel to. So the idea eventually percolated to name our blog "Home and Away." The blog is not intended to be an autobiography, although I spent my entire life traveling, with Linda joining me after college, it may appear to be that way. As this... full info

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Dad holding Tamara at our camp in the Adirondacks

Linda, Tamara, and Sue talking with Judy and Graham at camp in the Adirondaks

Dad babysitting the cousins in the Adirondacks

Alyssa, Ryan, Brendan, and Kristen, and Tamara with Dad

Kristen and Alyssa holding Tamara

Alyssa, with Bob holding Tamara at our camp in the Adirondacks

Linda holding Tamara at Fort Ticonderoga

Dad and Mom celebrating Mom's birthday with Sue in the background

Family reunion at a camp in the Adirondacks

By family from left to right: Dad and Mom; Bob, Linda, and Tamara; Rob and Sue with Brendan and Alyssa; David, Judy, Ryan, and Kristen, separated from her family in the middle of the first row. Only one missing was Carol, who was back in Brussels.