Benjamin Vides Lopez of Cedar Springs, visited family in la Paz, El Salvador, in Central America last month. He is shown here on October 28, 2020 with The Post newspaper. In the background is the San Vicente Volcano.
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The Post recently traveled to Morocco with the Norris family. The photo above shows Solon Township’s TJ Norris, with husband Ken behind the iPhone camera, at the astounding Grand Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, in mid-March. The couple were on a two-week tour when international borders started to close due to COVID-19 restrictions, cutting short their vacation in a wonderful kingdom filled with amazing sights and amazing people. With the help of the in-country tour company and the American Consulate in Casablanca, they were driven to Marrakech, expatriated by flights to London and then back to the U.S.A., to Chicago. Local travel agent Lori Visser, who arranged the tour and had their back when times got sketchy, got them home from there.
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A group of 11 people raised funds from Blythfield Hills Baptist Church at Ensley Center Campus traveled to Chichiastenango, Guatemala on February 21 for a mission trip. They spent a week serving the locals of Chi Chi through Manos de Jesus organization. The picture shows the group after building a home for Maria and her children in the mountains of Chichiastenango. The group also helped distribute shoes to 50 local children, visit families, and participated in three school feeding programs.
It sounds like you did some great work in Guatemala! Thanks so much for taking us with you!
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Paige Marsman, of Nelson Township, recently visited Colorado for a college tour. She was able to visit Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado with the Cedar Springs Post.
It looks like a beautiful place! Thank you, Paige, for taking us with you!
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Noah Gorby, of Cedar Springs, went on a weeklong trip with his grandparents, Dave and Jan Malmo, of Howard City, out East. Great photo bomb by the llama!
It was a great year for our “Post travels to” feature in 2019. The Post traveled far and wide. It traveled as close as Battle Creek, and as far away as Denmark. Other places the Post visited include: Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula, the Thumb, Hawaii, northern Michigan, the Grand Canyon, Alaska, Las Vegas, Washington state, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Montana, out East, Tennessee, Idaho, California, Central America, South America, and the Bahamas.
We are out of “Post travels” photos, so please send us yours in 2020!
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Earlier this year the Post traveled to Hawaii with Alan and Alyson Kieda, of Solon Township, and their daughter Rachel and her husband Ryan Campbell, and grandson Thomas, of Gand Rapids. The trip was to celebrate Alan and Alyson’s 40th wedding anniversary.
After missing a day because of ice at the airport, they traveled to Maui for a few days, then Oahu for almost a week, and then the Big Island for a week.
“We stayed at a beautiful Airbnb and played on volcanic beaches,” said Alan. “We learned all about volcanoes, as one cancelled two of our housing possibilities early in the year. We wondered why they didn’t just clear the lava off the road. We went to see it and found lava 30 feet high-plus over the roads and neighborhood for miles! 2000 folks lost their homes,” he said.
The Kiedas and Campbells had a great time and took lots of photos with the Post. Thank you so much for taking us with you!
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Bill Pollock, formerly of Cedar Springs, is traveling from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Los Angeles, on a 30-day cruise. He is shown here at the southernmost city in South America—Ushuaia, Argentina. They visited the Falkland Islands and saw penguins; they passed Cape Horn during the night; visited Chile and more.
Thanks so much for taking us with you!
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P.S. We prefer you to take a printed edition of the Post on your travels. You can pick one up right in our office. Bill lives on the East Coast and gets his Post electronically, and when he contacted us from the far side of the world, we allowed him to use his digital copy.
The Post recently traveled to the holy land of Israel with Rachel (Reed) Hunt and her husband, Joshua, of Martin. The couple spent five days on the escorted tour. They stayed in Tel Aviv, and in Ginosar, near Tiberius, on the Sea of Galilee.
They visited quite a few sites, including Pzfat, a city well known for art, and they went to a couple of art galleries there; they toured the Golan Heights, which used to belong to Syria; visited the the Mount of Beatitudes, where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount; visited Capernaum, where they saw the ruins of the Apostle Peter’s house and the synagogue next door where Jesus taught; and in Caesarea they saw the ruins of Herod’s palace and visited a winery.
In Jerusalem they visited the Holocaust museum and visited an Israeli museum where they saw the Dead Sea Scrolls. They toured the old city section of Jerusalem, where they saw the tomb of Schindler; visited the supposed site of King David’s tomb; visited the upper room where the last supper allegedly occurred before Jesus’ death; visited the Wailing Wall; and walked the Via De La Rosa which ended at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. On their last day they floated in the Dead Sea, after covering themselves in a sticky muck, which washed off in the water, but left their skin feeling soft and smooth. They also visited Masada.
“One of our favorite things was going to Masada,” said Rachel. “But it really was enjoyable seeing all the sites and learning about the history with a group of people.”
Thanks so much, Rachel and Josh, for taking us with you!
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Last August, Herm and Rosemary Standhardt travelled to the Netherlandsand took a Post with them. They stayed several days in Amsterdam.
One of the sites they visited was the Amsterdam Central Train Station, which they said is a huge station built in 1890s and handles over 200,00 travelers a day.
“Next to this station are many, many bicycles,” said Herm. “People who commute per train from this station park their older bikes there.
They also visited the Rembrandt Plein or Rembrandt Square. “All the painted characters in Rembrandts most famous painting,
the Nachtwacht or the Nightwatch, were cast in bronze and posted three-dimensional,” he explained.
Sounds like you guys had a great time. Thanks so much for taking us with you!
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The Post recently traveled to Colombia with Shana Poll. While there, Shana visited the cities Guatape, Medellin, and Nuqui.
In the photo, you can see her standing among some ruins. “Hello, from Guatape, Colombia. I’m on the pool house overlooking the burned out home of Pablo Escobar,” she said. And if you look closely at the photo, you can see she is pointing at a picture of herself from her last “Post travels to” earlier this summer when she went to China.
Thank you, Shana, for taking us with you!
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Shana Poll, a 1994 graduate of Tri County High School, spent 16 days in China. The first 10 days she taught PE at the Zhaingjaigang Liangfeng International School, a sister school to the Rochester Hills school where she teaches PE. Then she returned to Shanghai for more sightseeing before returning home.
She is shown above at a traditional restaurant in Zhaingjaigang.
Thanks so much, Shana, for taking us with you!
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Charlie and Kathy Prahl and daughter, Katia Corwin, recently took the Cedar Springs Post to the Empire Airport Roy Taghon Memorial Snowmobile Races. It was a cold 15-degree day but they enjoyed watching the sleds race, visiting family and friends, and celebrating many memories of Roy (Kathy’s brother) who went to be with the Lord on January 20, 2008.
Thank you to the Prahl family for taking us with you!
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