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Ben's Bike for Balance

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By Ben | 10:21 AM CST, Wed January 16, 2019

In 2002, I bicycled from Minneapolis to Grinnell, Iowa and back (a distance of 700 miles) on a speaking tour for World Population Balance. Here are my photos from the trip.

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YRUU, 1999-2005

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By Ben | 10:19 AM CST, Wed January 16, 2019

When I lived in Minneapolis, I was an adult advisor for the youth group at First Universalist Church. Here are my photos from local events and regional youth conferences.

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New Mexico

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By Ben | 10:17 AM CST, Wed January 16, 2019

In 2000, my parents and I went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon. Along the way we saw some sights in New Mexico. Here are my photos from the trip.

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Connie Becker's home, Minneapolis

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By Ben | 3:58 PM CST, Sun January 13, 2019

In April 1999, artist Connie Beckers had an open house to show off how she'd decorated her North Minneapolis home. Here are my photos from the visit.

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Geology field trips

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By Ben | 3:41 PM CST, Sun January 13, 2019

In the fall of '97 I took a semester of geology. Here are the photos from our field trips around Iowa.

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Battle Creek, Michigan

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By Ben | 3:37 PM CST, Sun January 13, 2019

I had a summer internship in 1997 at Great Lakes Free-Net in Battle Creek. Here are my photos from the experience.

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Aspen, Colorado

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By Ben | 3:31 PM CST, Sun January 13, 2019

In April, 1997, I took a bus from Grinnell to Aspen, CO to attend the first annual conference of the short-lived Alliance For Community Networking (AFCN), an organization that aimed to "bridge the digital divide" with public computing centers nationwide. The conference itself was pretty forgettable, but I had a great hike up Aspen Mountain and took a few photos.

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Mexico photos

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By Ben | 11:52 AM CST, Sat January 12, 2019

Spring break of my senior year of high school (1994) I went to visit my friend Javier and his family in Mexico City. Spring break of my junior year of college (1997) I returned to visit them again, this time in Uruapan and Michoacán. Here are my photos from the two trips.

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Alternative Fall Break, Winnebago, NE

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By Ben | 11:48 AM CST, Sat January 12, 2019

My first semester at Grinnell, I went on a service trip to the Winnebago reservation north of Omaha. We spent the week scraping and repainting a mortuary building. Here are my photos from the trip.

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YRUU, 1992-94

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By Ben | 4:35 PM CST, Thu January 10, 2019

Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the youth group of the UUA. I didn't get involved until I was a sophomore in high school, but then I attended all the "rallies" I could and took lots of photos of my friends and our antics.

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"Blue Boat Home" is the name of a UU hymn by Peter Mayer, about how we are all travelers on the Earth. We have his permission and blessing to use the name for this site.