Category: Blog
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We got married!
We’ve had this site, HarmsBoone.org, for about five years, now. It started as an easy place to direct our families (the Harms’ and the Boones) for updates on our lives in Korea, then Hungary, but on August 2 we became the HarmsBoones after an incredible wedding celebration on Minnesota’s North Shore. We had a fantastic…
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The 2013 Chuncheon Makguksu and Dakgalbi Festival
Each year in August the small city of Chuncheon, about an hour by express commuter rail from Seoul, hosts a week-long festival celebrating two specific Korean dishes: makguksu and dakgalbi. Apparently this year the town decided that late June was a more suitable time for the festival this year, and thank goodness because we’re really…
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You’re Back? Retuning to Seoul, three years later.
It was about three years ago that we said good bye to the Land of the Morning Calm, a sad day I think both of us will remember for many years to come. For all the struggles of living and breathing Korea for that year, it was a place that we came to love more…
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was a great man who invented some amazing devices that have changed the way we interact with technology. Today we’ve changed our look, (inspired by boingboing.net) to a retro mac theme in his memory. I never knew Jobs, and never thought I’d get the chance, but he was an inspiring public speaker, an…
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Mount Vernon: An Ode to Dedicated Trails
A couple weeks ago Danielle and I joined a couple of my new classmates on a ride out to Mount Vernon. The beautiful trail winds its way along the Potomac from the Washington estate past Alexandria, where it is briefly interrupted, DCA , the National Cemetery, and Fort Meyers, terminating finally in Rosslyn at the…