By Oana Harrison
Published in 2025 Mar/Apr Cityview Magazine
Underestimated. Beautiful. Complicated history. Home. That’s Romania, the beautiful country where I was born and lived until coming to the U.S. mid-90s. For 18 years, I called Knoxville and the Smokies home, while returning to my true home, the Carpathian Mountains, almost every year.
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March 2023 held a special reason for a visit to Tennessee: my mother-in-law’s 95th birthday. We celebrated a special person, as well as a colorful beginning of spring. Unfortunately, only two months later, we returned to celebrate Marian’s life, as she peacefully made her passing.
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Summer is a great time to get outside and have some fun! And that we did, in August of 2023, when my my cousin, her husband, and their daughter came to visit from Canada. We started the brief Colorado tour close to home: Arvada, Golden, and Morrison, Colorado.
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This year flew by quickly for me. I guess it’s true when they say time speeds up as you advance in years…. Although we didn’t travel as much as we would have like to, we had some good stops in the U.S., like Golden and Granby Lake in Colorado, Miami, Florida, and Salt Lake City, Utah. We also finally traveled abroad again to Romania and Greece with a short stop in Munich, Germany. Each one of our trips offered a different experience, and we enjoyed them all. Here are some highlights.
Continue reading “2022 Year in Review: Cheers to the New Year and to New Travels!”
This year, the year of the “plague,” we are not going to visit with family or friends but we are thinking fondly of them all. We relive the joy of our last year’s celebrations instead and give thanks for our health.
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