Day Twenty-One: Ausitn, MN, Couchsurfing

We couchsurfed with Dahn and her five children in Austin.  Because we were having such a great time with them, we only managed to take a few photos.

 Here is Abram with 12-year-old Christina's guinea pig.

Here is Greta and Christina with Christina's bunnies. 

In this couchsurfing home, there is Dahn, two boys, Cory and Alex (15 y.o. and 14 y.o) and three girls Journey, Christina, and Tory (13 y.o., 12 y.o., and 12 y.o.).  Dahn and her former spouse, Todd, adopted the sibling trio of Destiny (19 y.o. and no longer living at home), Journey, and Christina ten years ago.  Then, they adopted Cory seven years ago.  Todd lives in Austin and is Dahn's best friend, though no longer her husband.

Dahn taught us to play cribbage and we stayed up way too late talking about children and motocycles (She is an avid rider of her Buell.) and traveling.  Every year for the last decade and a half, Dahn has taken a vacation -- by herself -- to some interesting part of the world.  She has been on all but one, i.e., Antarctica, of the continents.  Recently, she has included one of the children on her annual travel.  The child gets to pick the place and help to plan it.

Coincidentally, Rob and Jenna have been telling the children for years that when they each turn sixteen, they may choose anywhere on the planet to travel.  At most recent inquiry, Asher picked Madagascar; Greta chose Paris; and Salem selected New Hampshire.  Good old exotic NH.