06-29-2023 Howard Magazine - Flipbook - Page 10
Q U I C K TA K E S
BY ETHAN EHRENHAFT Howard Magazine
What was your favorite
family vacation?
Josh Wasilewski’s family used to vacation in Nags Head, North Carolina. AP FILE PHOTO
Bessie Bordenave
Josh Wasilewski
Danielle Duran Baron
president, Harriet Tubman Foundation
of Howard County
principal, Guilford Park High School
board of directors president, Luminus
Network for New Americans
“We never took an out-of-state vacation
growing up. My dad did custodial work
and my mom did day work so they
never really had time to
kick off. But on some
Sundays, my dad would
pile all of us in the car
and we would go to
Frederick. We would stop
on the side of the road
and have a big meal — They’d have
chicken, potato salad, coleslaw. Then
we would go on up to Frederick and we
would just ride around, look at the blue
skies and look at the hills.”
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“For 44 years my family has been going
to the beach. Ever since I was a baby,
my grandmother, my mom’s five other
siblings and all of us would go. We
started out in Nags Head,
North Carolina, and now
we end up in Garden
City, South Carolina.
Having all the family
there, 30 people deep in
a house, is just an
amazing experience and so much fun.
That’s why I ended up loving the beach
and one of the reasons I joined the
Ocean City Beach Patrol.”
“I have my childhood memories of
spending the summers on the beach
with my family back in Brazil. But now I
have my own family here
in Howard County. We
took a trip a few years
ago to the northern part
of Spain. My
grandparents were from
this region, Galicia. About
90 years after they left, we visited the
same port they departed from. My
grandmother went back once but it
was a touching moment because I was
standing in the same place where she
saw her home country for the last time.”