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The Insta-Home Challenge: Honolulu, HI

February 3, 2014
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Tweet There’s nice … and then there’s niiiiiiiice. IMG_9235 We’ve arrived on the island of Oahu, Hawaii with The Lion King for two months. If that sheer fact wasn’t enough, we booked The Gingerbread House in Honolulu — a historic residence in the posh neighborhood of Kahala. And yeah… it’s niiiiiiice. IMG_9490 There’s a pool […]

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Cold plunges, peaches, and pulled pork sandwiches

July 12, 2012
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Tweet IMG_7912 We ended Greenville on a high note — out in nature, amongst gorgeous ravines, tall trees and pork products. Perfect for the Hollicks! On our last free afternoon before leaving Greenville, we took a drive up to Pisgah National Forest, about one hour north on the way up to Asheville, on the advice […]

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As American as baseball and melodramatic crying

July 7, 2012
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Tweet Hoooo boy! It’s been hawt here in Greenville, SC this past month. A heat wave scorched the area with temps in the 100s for a solid week, and if you take this simmering sunshine, heap on a generous helping of humidity, and … sprinkle on some parmesan, well you have the makings of a […]

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The Insta-home Challenge: Greenville, SC

June 17, 2012
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Tweet One of the biggest lessons that I’ve learned recently on the road is to keep your expectations in check. For instance, I had never been to Miami before but heard how fun and glamorous it was, and I had never even heard of Greenville. So which do you think I was psyched to visit […]

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Fish in the water

June 9, 2012
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Tweet Our son is a fish. We always knew he was intrepid in the water, which is why we enrolled him in swim classes at 13-months-old. But Max actually enjoys his time underwater, and we would have never known the extent if our friend Nick Cordileone hadn’t recorded him with his iPhone underwater. Here, he’s […]

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