Oh No – Not My Middle Name

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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

For most of my childhood I was so embarrassed by my middle name. It wasn’t American. It was my grandmothers name and she was Swedish. In fact all my grandparents were Swedish. But oh that name. It sounded so much better in Swedish.

So what was this name. Gerda. And so many ugly rhymes could go with it. Especially dirty Gerty .

Although the name no longer makes me cringe, when I changed my name for marriage and back again, I decided to drop the middle name. All my legal documents no longer include the cringeworthy Gerda.

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In 2015, I retired and set out to do as much traveling as I could. I started the blog on our first, month-long trip to Panama in October 2015. My sister Linda and her husband Stan joined Bruce and me on our first trip and we decided together on the name the four amigos. Since then, we don’t always travel with them, sometimes just Bruce and I, sometimes other people, whoever wants to join us on our crazy journeys. The name stuck and I grew an affinity for it. So here we are. I invite you to join the fouramigos blog on our next destination.

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