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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Our trip included hiking the Fjords, visiting an outdoor school, meeting and speaking to people about their love for the outdoors.

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During this period, Mark and I took a trip to New York City to visit our old high school friend Sriya.

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Living in the heart of a big city, with temperate early-fall weather and our longest regular excursion being an 11 mile round trip taking the kids to school on weekday mornings, we figured we could easily avoid running the Volt on gasoline altogether.

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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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