On my very first trip with my new State FFA officers in 2005, we stopped at an elementary school on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to ask for directions to the high school.

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At my oldest son's school fund-raiser we won a trip to Medieval Times.

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The day I came home from school and my father told me we would soon take a trip across the Atlantic is one of my most vivid childhood memories.

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As I told the young women at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in London during our recent trip, I told them there was nothing in my life that would suggest that I would become First Lady.

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So on our next trip to my husband's homeland of Scotland, we booked a lesson at the British School of Falconry at the Gleneagles Hotel, whose 850 acres of Scottish highland is quite the setting for pretending to be a clan chief hunting for dinner.

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