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A Week of Adventures

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I spent the past two weeks travelling throughout New England: I spent two days in New Hampshire hiking the White Mountains and Flume Gorge, got to spend a day sailing with a friend, and I hit up New Bedford’s whaling museum. Here’s a few photos I took from the trip:

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Quick New York Escapade

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I hadn’t seen my godson in a hot minute, so we spent a day chilling. Nothin’ crazy, but this dam is nuts — seriously it looks like the Tower of Babel.

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Pilgrimage to St. Dumitru's

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Update: added a few more photos.

A few friends and I just got back from a short pilgrimage to St. Dumitru’s Romanian Orthodox Monastery in Middletown, NY (about two hours from Albany).

This was my first time in a monastery — I really enjoyed it. The church and monastery grounds were beautiful, and the services were prayerful and somber. Although we missed the myrrh-streaming Holy Theotokos Iveron Icon, the analogion it had rested on was thoroughly soaked with extremely fragrant myrrh and we had the blessing of venerating that.

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Bozeman, Montana

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My family and I flew up to Bozeman for my sister’s graduation last week. I got to spend some time innawoods at our cabin and I also visited the local OCA parish. There’s also a wonderful monastery in Harrison that’s tightly knit with the surrounding parishes, but unfortunately I didn’t get an opportunity to visit.

Given the time of year, the weather was outstanding — it hit 80 degrees despite snowing nearly two weeks ago! We also got to spend some time in yellowstone. It’s always great, but this time I had my iPhone’s 48MP camera with me. The photos are pretty spectacular.

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Rural New York Trip

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Several hours ago I returned from a trip to the mountainous hills spanning the border of New York and Massachusetts.

We enjoyed home cooked meals and mountain air.

I’m keeping this one short. God bless.

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