June 2010 - June 2011

The Outer Banks - June 2010







Various Camping Trips with the AOC...

Halloween Pumpkins 2010

New Year's in San Diego

A Week of Snow Days!

Brewing Beer

Sinus Surgery over Spring Break

Caving with the AOC

Warrior Dash 2011

Playing at the River, Creek, Lake...

First Day of Spring

Settles Bridge Park

Travis and I decided to go to the Chattahoochee River last weekend. It was a little cold out, but we enjoyed a picnic lunch and Bailey had a blast!

Let's see who I married...

For fun the other day, I looked up the meaning of Travis' name...

Travis is French in origin and is derived from a Norman French occupational name (from traverser to cross) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road.

So, Travis = toll collector.

Hurt is a variant of Hart. In German, it is a topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’.

However, Travis feels that he should follow the Dutch version (based on his ancestry). The Dutch version is: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’

So, Hurt = pugnacious or aggressive person.

Therefore, TRAVIS HURT = TROLL.

Unfortunately, troll is what I came up with. Trolls are aggressive and they guard bridges where they demand tolls.

What's odd is that Travis works as a traffic engineer on traffic lights. He truly is controlling when people are allowed to move across roadways.

Chattanooga

Travis and I went to Chattanooga for Valentine's Day weekend. We were limited in our activities because we took Bailey with us and it was snowing, but we did get to see Rock City.

Here we are being silly...

It was beautiful in the snow, but we were not able to see any panoramic views.

Fortunately, we were able to see some views because we went hiking the day before and the skies were clear.