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One Eagle resident learns that the perfect vacation is what you make of it, in
Italy, China, or your own backyard.
storyliza Walton
photographydana Bibertson
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ravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad,
wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s
lifetime,” wrote Mark Twain, the senior statesman of American humor in his epic travel log, Innocents Abroad. If Twain was
right, then Eagle residents Dana and Ryan Biberston are probably among the most open minded people on the planet. The
Biberstons, who moved with their six young children to Lexington Hills from Colorado in 2004, are addicted to only one thing:
travel. “My passion has always been traveling to new places,” says Dana. “It’s my outlet.”from the local Albertsons.
Among the push pins Dana and Ryan can claim on their world travel map: China, Greece, Italy, Croatia, and Canada. And Dana
studied at BYU’s Jerusalem Center in Israel while in college. The whole family is planning a summer trip to New Zealand, where
Dana’s parents currently live. Dana isn’t worried about how the kids will handle the flight that takes them across the dateline:
she’s an expert at traveling with children.
One of their favorite trips was a recent one to China. Ryan, the implant sales manager for Globus Medical, had always wanted
to see the Great Wall, so when the couple had friends living there, they decided it was the perfect opportunity. They flew in and
out of Shanghai, spending 12 days seeing sites that had only existed in books for them. While touring the Imperial Palace, Ryan
struck up a conversation with a local guide who was able to take them to a remote part of the Great Wall.
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