Josiah and Lauren Part 9: Where Are They Honeymooning?

[JillyO]

Interrupting all of your amazing travel stories with some Josiah and Lauren news. I don't think we've seen all of these congratulatory videos yet, have we? They give us a pretty good look at the bridesmaid dresses. Joy definitely looked SO MUCH like Jessa that day, wow! Caution: Turd sighting.

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josiah-duggar-lauren-swanson-wedding-advice-162866

[Sky with diamonds]

12 minutes ago, Carm_88 said:

Depends on what part of the South Coast. My Mom is from the Burin Pennisula, so I've seen a lot of there. We used to go every summer for a while when my grandmother was still alive and before we had a lot to do in the summer. I can't say I've seen it all, but I have seen a lot! 

Small world again. The Burin Pennisula is where I am from. One of the smaller places, less than 200 people live there now. 

I think it's great that you want to travel so much of the province. I had hopes to do that in August of 2007, the last time I was back, but things came up and I couldn't do it.

Forgive me for being nosy, do you have a favorite place on the Burin Pennisula?

I miss the place so much. I'm hoping to move back there later this year. 

[Carm_88]

2 minutes ago, Sky with diamonds said:

Small world again. The Burin Pennisula is where I am from. One of the smaller places, less than 200 people live there now. 

I think it's great that you want to travel so much of the province. I had hopes to do that in August of 2007, the last time I was back, but things came up and I couldn't do it.

Forgive me for being nosy, do you have a favorite place on the Burin Pennisula?

I miss the place so much. I'm hoping to move back there later this year. 

Not nosy at all! It is indeed a small world. I like Golden Sands a lot, I find it to be a beautiful place. My Mama comes from a smaller place and nearby there's a beach called Sandy Cove which is nice as well. I quite like it! Swift Current is amazingly beautiful in the fall, when all the colours change. Really, there's not a bad place.*

*Except the drive from Swift Current to Marystown. Let me snore!  

[Sky with diamonds]

5 minutes ago, Carm_88 said:

Not nosy at all! It is indeed a small world. I like Golden Sands a lot, I find it to be a beautiful place. My Mama comes from a smaller place and nearby there's a beach called Sandy Cove which is nice as well. I quite like it! Swift Current is amazingly beautiful in the fall, when all the colours change. Really, there's not a bad place.*

*Except the drive from Swift Current to Marystown. Let me snore!  

If it's the Sandy Cove near my hometown...that's a beautiful spot. I have wonderful memories of going there. The town close by is attracting lots of attention these days. It's great to see, even from afar.  It's amazing. 

I never thought when I joined here, I would come across someone from Newfoundland. One who loves it as much as I do. One who just might have Sandy Cove in common. It makes me very happy. Thanks for this. 

Spoiler

 

[Tenyari]

34 minutes ago, JillyO said:

Interrupting all of your amazing travel stories with some Josiah and Lauren news. I don't think we've seen all of these congratulatory videos yet, have we? They give us a pretty good look at the bridesmaid dresses. Joy definitely looked SO MUCH like Jessa that day, wow! Caution: Turd sighting.

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josiah-duggar-lauren-swanson-wedding-advice-162866

I never noticed this before, but Joy looks so much like Michelle as well. She's beautiful. The Duggar women and girls are all so stunning. 

[tabitha2]

Yeah. The women are beautiful but the men are average looking at best.Lumpy and nondescript.

[Iamtheway]

10 hours ago, bashfulpixie said:

People who travel - do any of you do your traveling alone? Most of my friends don’t have the either means or the paid leave to travel and I’m currently single. Which means if I don’t do something alone, I don’t do it at all. 

I have done some trips alone and liked it a lot. I find it is much easier to meet people when you’re alone. That’s how I met Mr Way and now we enjoy travelling together. 

A few years ago we took time off work and travelled across Australia. We thought it was time to explore at (one of our) home. It was awesome. But even though we spent over ssix weeks travelling there are still many parts left to visit. Australia is huge!

[WiseGirl]

I've been contemplating traveling by myself. Thanks to all who contributed their stories, it is certainly inspiring me!

[Naga Viper]

9 hours ago, GeoBQn said:

@Rachel333 Antarctica is also on my husband's bucket list.  Penguins are his favorite animals, and I think he has a fantasy that one of them will just follow us home.

Oh my. Which Arndt are you married to?

[PennySycamore]

When we used to go to Lancaster and the surrounding area on band trips in high school, we'd stop in the tourist shops. Naturally we being teenagers, we were drawn to the signs for local villages like Intercourse, Blue Ball and Paradise.  @Carm_88 and @Sky with diamonds,  in that tradition of racy town signs, I need one from Dildo, Newfoundland.  Seriously, though, I do love the fact that NewFoundland and Labrador have a wealth of colorful place names.

I've traveled by myself a bit and traveled with my daughters some. Earlier this year, I spent a week at Disney World with my youngest daughter and next weekend, I'm going with her and my middle daughter to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville.  it's going to be so much fun!

[feministxtian]

I'm reading everyone's travel plans and have decided that my bucket list is LAME. My ambition is to make it to every NASA center in the country (with the exception of Langley) and to Spacefest. 

Honestly, I hate traveling. I mean HATE it. I'm one of those who likes HER house, HER stuff, HER bed. 

And, due to the current attitudes regarding certain groups of immigrants, its not in my best interests to apply for a passport...so, leaving the US ain't gonna happen. 

[bekkah]

I have traveled solo to Italy and San Francisco. I loved it, I never felt lonely. I met cool people. 

Rome was the first place I solo traveled to and I loved it. I think being surronded by art and history was amazing. I covered all the major stuff. 

 

SF was also a fun city to explore by myself. I went salsa dance, ate dim sum and walked the whole city. I’ll be back here. 

[mango_fandango]

Many people my age (early 20s) do things like travel around South-East Asia (or wherever) for six months or more, backpacking... I cannot imagine anything worse. As a shy introvert the idea of sharing a room in a youth hostel is hell. And walking around in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, I’ll pass. I like a good degree of certainty and structure in my life and just bumming around with no firm plans or goals is not my kind of thing.

I don’t mind traveling, but I prefer places in Europe. And I wouldn’t go for very long, either, maybe two weeks at most. 

[scoutsadie]

5 hours ago, JillyO said:

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josiah-duggar-lauren-swanson-wedding-advice-162866

""[Lauren and Josiah] are a precious couple and we are so excited about their future together," Michelle began. "We are really looking forward to some more grandbabies!" she laughed. "Before you know it, our grandkids are going to have to wear name tags," Jim Bob chimed in."

Gag.

[artdecades]

babies babies babies

everything is babies

i really hope they don't get pregnant right away but Lauren probably will

[just_ordinary]

Wow, this thread is hard work to catch up on. Love all your travelling stories. 

Just a few points over the course of 7 pages....

- in my country the custody default was the mother for a long time. It changes and I think that is awesome. The default was however not just to discriminate fathers in their role as parent- it was just a product of society at that time. Mothers were the primary caregiver, fathers (as a general group) weren’t fighting it too much. For the longest time (and it is still a thing) mother’s stayed at home for three years (per child as the typically start kindergarten at age 3) and then worked part time (to mind them after kindergarten and school). This is still a popular concept as women often earn less than men and you get the most out of the system with this model. However, it hurts women in the case of a divorce or a fatality if the husband. The poverty rate for single mothers is high (also this system makes it more likely to be poor when you are old as a woman as you didn’t pay a lot into the pension system). When society realised that children should be raised by both parties and the first generation of fathers started to be really involved it became difficult. Often the mothers were still the primary care giver and that is why the court ruled in their favour- which is kind of stupid. Of course the one at home spends more time with the children but this person will have work/work more now and fathers should do their fair share of parenting. Luckily the old concept is fought and changes as fathers and mothers tend to ask for 50-50 custody more and more.

- I think it is crazy that you cannot cross the border with your child without proving the consent of the other parent. Yes, child abductions are horrible and need to be contained. But this puts all parents under some sort of general suspicion. I would definitely argue that someone who really wants to abducted a child to another country finds a way to do it. I sometimes miss the balance between trust and control. But then every case caught is a point for the system. Very complicated but personally I defer to trusting people first.

- I traveled to Mexico (honeymoon, rented a car and drove around), the Caribbean (cruise- learned that this way of traveling is not for me- sadly my husband loved it), Canada (mostly BC, rented car), Dubai (it’s just not worth it in my opinion- we went cause my BIL and family moved there and sadly it was one big disappointment, no traditional culture at all, everything in that direction is obviously set up for tourists. Would rather go to Oman) and then of course Europe (Paris/Strasbourg/Elsass, Rome, Budapest, Copenhagen and the southwest of Denmark, Ghent, turkey, Stockholm and the north of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and of course lots of Germany and the UK). Now, with a baby on the way we will cut back on the international trips for a bit and spend more time to explore our home countries Germany and the UK. There are still thousands of things to see and do. When the children are older we want to go back to destinations further away and we want to show them all European capitals.

- on the travelling bucket list are still lots of things to cross: Russia (especially St. Petersburg, only destination where I would consider going on a (river) cruise again), the three Baltic states, South Africa (yes for the animals), Marocco, Costa Rica or Guatemala, Brazil (have some relatives there), China, Thailand/Cambodia, Japan, Australia/New Zeeland, Canada again, maybe New York/Washington and some National Parcs in the USA.

So lots to safe up for while having kids and buying property. I wonder what we will have visited in the end.

- lastly something on topic: Josiah looks very happy in the reception photo and in some other candid photos. I wonder if he hated the proces of professional photos or if they got a nice marriage counselling by JB after their vowels. The difference is smashing. Or he was just tired and done, or had a headache or his muscles cramped (happened to me at my wedding from all the smiling).

But then I have never seen him as very different from his brothers. Don’t get what lots of you detect by watching the show. Maybe a tad more sensitive but that would explain his strange posing even more. 

[Mama Mia]

1 hour ago, feministxtian said:

I'm reading everyone's travel plans and have decided that my bucket list is LAME. My ambition is to make it to every NASA center in the country (with the exception of Langley) and to Spacefest. 

Honestly, I hate traveling. I mean HATE it. I'm one of those who likes HER house, HER stuff, HER bed. 

And, due to the current attitudes regarding certain groups of immigrants, its not in my best interests to apply for a passport...so, leaving the US ain't gonna happen. 

One of my best friends since childhood had the strangest thing going on - she always SAID she wanted to travel. She made big plans and saved her money and planned and traveled both locally and internationally ( and this kind of traveling wasn’t an expectation in her group )  And was MISERABLE. Every. Single. Time. Hated the beds, the foods, the customs, the uncertainty, the not being in control. She just hated it. Both long trips, and short adventures. She would be incredibly anxious and irritable. But kept saving and planning and doing it. And is now a travel agent ! Weirdest thing.

On the passport topic - maybe it’s because I’ve been watching Handmaid’s Tale - but now I want passports for everyone in my family - to maybe get to Mexico or Canada if things go bad. 

[MarblesMom]

16 hours ago, bashfulpixie said:

People who travel - do any of you do your traveling alone?

No choice here but to do it alone.  The travel itself was fine, the worst part was eating alone in restaurants.

Comments from people I met along the journey was that "I was brave" and "they could never do it."

I just wanted out of the snow for a while.  I am alone here, I was alone there, but warmer. 

[Jinder Roles]

I don’t have any travel plans except for Miami in August but I have been very fortunate in that I’ve  travelled since I was a baby and been to quite a few places. Thanks parents. 

Places I’ve been: Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, St Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, Guyana, Panama, Brazil, Canada, Hawaii, Georgia, New York, Connecticut, California, D.C, Florida, Virginia, Spain, England, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland. 

Bucket List: Greece, Brazil (again), Spain (food poisoning so need to revisit), Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany (again, love it!) San Francisco, Texas, Chicago, Fiji, Australia, UAE, Jordan, Croatia, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Egypt Morocco, Dominica, Cuba (I can’t believe I’ve neve been... it’s literally next door), Peru, Canada (too young to remember) 

I also really want to go to Ghana because West Africa is where most black Jamaicans descended from and I hear a lot of them where Akan from Ghana. It would be cool to see the similarities and differences in culture. 

Oh and South Africa as well. I hear it’s lit. And a few people I know say Cape Town reminds them of Jamaica.

 

[prayawaythefundie]

16 minutes ago, Jinder Roles said:

Oh and South Africa as well. I hear it’s lit. And a few people I know say Cape Town reminds them of Jamaica.

 

Never been to Jamaica but Cape Town is awesome. You will not be disappointed.

[Iamtheway]

I love travelling and have been around quite a lot in Asia, Australia and Europe. And I have many, many countries that I still want to see. Japan is on top of my (very long) wishlist and I always want to go back to New Zealand. However I am finding it harder and harder to motivate flying. Climate change is a real threat and I want to do my part and cut down on my carbon imprint. 

With a husband that wants to visit his family on the other side of the world it is extra hard to avoid flying. Going to Australia from Sweden eithout flying is almost impossible, very time consuming and horribly expensive. So now I’m just hoping someone will invent planes that are enviroment friendly so I don’t have to give up travelling.

This year we’re taking the train on holiday though and are crossing of three items on my travel-wishlist: Switzerland, interrail and going back to Slovenia. 

[JordynDarby5]

Been to Hawaii, California, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa, Catalina Island, Ensenada Mexico, and the Bahamas. The best was Hawaii it was just so beautiful and so cool. I loved every minute there and never wanted to leave same with the Bahamas. I loved San Diego, Disneyland and Disney World, and Las Vegas. For a long time my family went to Vegas every year gambling away, visiting the different casinos it was so much fun, we even had a family reunion there once. Mount Rushmore was a spur of the moment stop we were on our way back from my uncle's funeral and just felt like stopping somewhere.

Would love to visit: Alaska it would be so much fun to see Alaska, Seattle, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Yellowstone, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Gettsyburg, all over Virginia at different Civil War battlefields, see different Revolutionary battlefields. Australia my dad went their once on RR in the Army and always wanted to take us on a trip there, Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, China and Japan. India, Egypt, Israel, New Zealand, Guam, all the Caribbean islands, take a road trip through Canada from one end to the other. I'd really love to do that in almost every country there's so many cool cites and great places to see. Italy alone there's Milan, Venice, Rome, Florence, Turin, Naples, and so much more.

Would love to go back: To Hawaii I've always wanted to go back and my dad's wanted to go back ever since the USS Missouri was moved there he's always wanted to see it, Disney World, Disneyland, San Diego and Las Vegas.

[Karma]

I’ll play .  I’m lucky that Mr Karma loves travelling as well, and that he gets to keep his frequent flyer points from his numerous business trips!

I’ve been to New Zealand, the US (but only NY, Florida, Washington DC, Nevada, California and Hawaii), Mexico, the Cayman Islands, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Micronesia, the Cook Islands, the UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, South Africa, Zambia, UAE and not as much of Australia as I’d like.  We are going to Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in September!  And on the way I’m meeting my German penfriend of nearly 40 years in Athens, our 8th meeting but the first alone without kids and husbands in 21 years  .

I wish that Australia wasn’t such a long flight from everywhere...

I have travelled only a little by myself and do prefer company.  My dad won’t travel but my mum loves it.  Luckily she has a widowed friend and they’ve had several holidays together.

[Rachel333]

My passport expired a few months ago, making this the first time since I was a child that I haven't had a valid passport. I need to get it renewed because even if I have no travel planned I like to have it just in case something happens where I need it.

[Someone Out There]

I just got back to a 2.5 week trip to the Northern Territory (in Australia), now I just need to go to Tasmania to tick of all the main states and territories of Australia.  I went by myself and took a 5 day tour from Alice Springs, and then a 5 day tour from Darwin as I had no desire to do the long driving distances at this point and I wouldn't really want to do the walks by myself.

On my list of overseas countries to go to are New Zealand and China.  I also expect to go to Europe again at some point though this may be with a friend after she has saved enough money such that she feels ok spending the money getting there.

I think there are pros and cons to travelling by yourself or with other people and it may depend on where you are going as well.  I think for me it may be that if travelling in a non-english speaking country(ies) I would like a travelling companion so that I have someone to talk to, but if travelling in a country that speaks English travelling by myself may be better as I can randomly talk to strangers if I need some socialisation.  It may also depend on what I want to do/where I want to go on a trip.