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“That was delicious, sweetheart,” Mark said as he brought his dishes to the sink. “I can't
believe that you just whipped that up. How did you even know to look for—what did you call
it, 'stampa'?—recipes?”
“It's called
stamppot,
baby, and I looked it up because today at work there was a gentleman
named Jan de Groot visiting us from the Netherlands. He's a delightful man—so relaxed
but dignified at the same time. He started telling me about Haarlem, a little town in the
Netherlands where he's from, and that got me thinking that maybe visiting the Netherlands
wouldn't be such a bad idea. So when I got home I started looking around the Internet, and it
wasn't long before I came across a picture of
stamppot.
I downloaded a recipe, and voila!”
“Visiting the Netherlands?” Mark thought to himself. This was new. Mark and Hannah
hadn't been out of the country since their honeymoon in the Bahamas seven years ago. “I
suppose that means my passport is still valid,” Mark thought, but this wasn't at all what he
had expected from Hannah when he had come home that evening. Normally Hannah liked
to move in little, careful steps through life, and if anything, she was the one in their relation-
ship who tried to slow things down. Where was this all coming from?
Mark realized he didn't know anything about the Netherlands. He had heard of it, of course,
and he was pretty sure that was where Dutch people were from, but that was about the extent
of his knowledge. “When were you thinking we might go, Hannah?” Mark asked. “And how
would we pay for it? A trip to the Netherlands sounds pretty expensive.” Mark was interes-
ted, but he had a lot of questions
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Typically speaking, the two main challenges travelers face are the challenges of time and
finance—the main strength of
Travel Every Day
is that it allows you to simultaneously over-
come both of these challenges. By finding value and enjoyment during the planning portion
of your trip, you'll travel in a very real way from the moment you begin to plan. And by
planning a trip of a lifetime, you're placing a beacon in the future that will draw you for-
ward and help you to make more focused choices throughout your life, freeing both time and
money for more fulfilling use.
