pickin’ Alsace

By Katherine | January 6, 2012 |

My boyfriend and I have fallen for American Pickers, the History Channel show about two guys from Iowa who travel the U.S. buying the best vintage/antiques/cool junk for their shops in Iowa and Nashville. As we started watching our first episode, my boyfriend and I looked at each other and said “that’s us!!”  Although we call…

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As the sun sets on 2011…

By Katherine | December 30, 2011 |

Two weeks ago, before my boyfriend and I came back to the US, we set out for one of our last adventures in France before we move.  We chose northeastern France, near the German border for two reasons: first, neither of us had been there in over 15 years, and second, there are few better…

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