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  • We did it, all of it.

    And yes, at 34 weeks pregnant. Here is the thing about meeting your person at age 40: you do everything all at once. I left Norway last November when I was eight weeks pregnant. We found out the wonderful news just days after Serhii’s visa to the US was approved.…

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  • The train taking me back to Bergen is just pulling away from the station in Oslo city center. My parents are on the ferry leaving…

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  • I often think that the answer to everything lies in a good hike. Something about the mixture of breathing hard and sweating, added with a…

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I’m Kate, the author behind this blog. I love to travel and tell stories. Lately, I have been traveling a lot which means I have been telling a lot of stories.