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Published on Monday, October 13, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
On their honeymoon in 1984, Steve and Caroline Lake did something that lots of tourists do in Boston - they stopped to visit some of the area's well-known colleges.
Then the honeymoon ended. And the Lakes just kept on visiting colleges.
Twenty-four years later, on trips across the country and occasionally in other countries, the Lakes are still building their vacations around visits to college campuses. On Monday, Steve Lake checked the 500 th four-year college off his list, at a ceremony at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. (Caroline hasn't seen quite so many; when they travel, she'll often sleep in while he hits two or three campuses, then join him later).
"It felt tremendous and a big relief, too," Lake said after meeting Our Lady of the Lake's president, Tessa Martinez Pollack at a ceremony. "It's something I've worked on for 24 years and have finally achieved
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