🚪 One Door Closes, Another Opens | Bulletin #118

This week: an engineering marvel ⚒️ and puppies 🐶

January 01, 2025

Ishtar Gate 📍 Hillah, Babil, Iraq 📸 Osama Sarm

Happy New Year, Adventurers! Hope your holidays were delightful. Yesterday we opened the door into a brand-new year and discovered that January is fittingly named after Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, symbolizing beginnings and endings. Janus, depicted with two faces—one gazing into the past and the other into the future—might just hold the winning lotto numbers. Here's hoping he shares!

THIS WEEK IN AWA AWESOMENESS

🎉 A new resolution
🦫 Exploring an engineering marvel
🥂 A New Year’s toast
🐶 New addition to the Team

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE FROM AWA?

Our resolution for this year? To bring you more joy! But we’ll need a little bit of your help in order to make the AWA Bulletin the best it’s ever been. Vote in the section below on what you’d like to see more of in the coming year, and we’ll do our darnedest to bring some semi-weekly doses of delight your way. Deal?

New Year, More AWA Fun

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In Case You Missed It

What better way to ring in the New Year than with some festive fireworks and quirky toasts to the winter season…

🥂 Seeing Stars in Champagne
🎆 Buy 1, Get 5 Free Fireworks
💈 Nature’s Pomade in Canada 
⛷️ The Father of Alpine Skiing

Hoover Dam 📍 Boulder City, Nevada, USA 📸 Marjorie Becker

A DAM IMPORTANT LANDMARK

Once the largest dam in the world, this desert-surrounded landmark sparked the birth of one urban center, the death of another, and the growth of many more!

You don’t have to crack open your 5th grade textbooks for this one — this iconic landmark is so much more interesting than we expected!

Seehof Herrsching 📍 Herrsching, Germany 📸 Ann Kozar

PRESS FOR CHAMPAGNE

A German beer garden with a penchant for bubbly? Raise a glass (or a flute) at Seehof Herrsching that officially tops our charts as having the best way to order a bubbly adult beverage.

NEW YEAR, NEW PUPPY

Dexter is ringing in the new year with a new sister! This fall, we welcomed a new addition to the team: Friday. Although we’re not sure if she’s ready to be employee of the month just yet, Friday already has her AWA roots down: she is named after an AWA classic: Lake Tekapo from our first book.

2025 is bringing in new Adventures, stories, and of course more Secret Links. We’ll be giving away a brand new Roller Skate Pin to the grand prize winner, with of course 30+ stickers to the runner ups. 🔎