Madly in Love with Merida
Do you ever get so incredibly tired that you begin to make noises involuntarily? Groans, sighs, other sad sounds that escape of their own volition when you do things like move or think? Have you ever been [...]
Discovering Dubai
I am sitting in an extravagantly beautiful cocktail lounge called Bahri on the edge of the Persian Gulf, staring at a strange hotel (7 stars ?!) shaped like a ship sail, drinking a ridiculously good cocktail at [...]
Mexican Musings on my Birthday
I've been holding out on you guys. Things have been whirlwindish for the past couple of months but I've been sitting on a treasure trove of probably my favorite photos that I've taken in a really long [...]
The Sweet Smell of Greek Liberty
After almost two weeks - most of it in quarantine - on Santorini, Sondra Morgan and I devoured Athens like starving kittens. We ate everything, bought everything, drank everything and then bought some more. We were ridiculously [...]
Greek COVID Captivity
Sondra and I got into a fistfight this morning. She is eating all of my yogurt. She bought her own but she doesn’t like it as much as mine. She said it tastes like goats. So I [...]
COVID Dance Parties on Santorini
COVID Positive Captivity – Day Two: You know, there are a lot worse places to be quarantined besides a Greek Island, and Sondra and I are determined to make the best of our situation even though we [...]
A Few Italy Truths
It’s day 12 in Italy and here are a few fun facts I’ve discovered on the open road: My Italian is shit. But it’s not NEARLY as bad as my German. If I’m going to ever [...]
Austria by Accident
I tried to go to Munich today. Yeah, in Germany. Okay, that’s not *exactly* true. More accurate would be to say I didn’t try hard enough to NOT go to Germany today. Alright, the whole truth is [...]
Pretty Flowers and Failing Bra Cups
The motto for today is no good deed goes unpunished. OR never take them if a guy tries to hand you roses. Or ALWAYS buy a bottle of wine if you pass a convenience store because [...]
A Glamorous First Day in Venice (not)
I woke up this morning on a concrete landing outside of the door of my guesthouse in Venice. It was my first night there, and if I thought my neck was stiff after a transatlantic flight, I [...]
Tips for Spain
If you are ever in Spain, find a town with a festival - especially in the Andalucia region of south Spain. There is nothing like it -- the beautiful flamenco dresses, conquistadors, bullfights, music, festooned cantinas that [...]
Ode to a traveling friend
Las Vegas, Portland, Cannon Beach, Cozumel, Tulum, Isla Mujeres, Havana, and Pinar del Rio ~ dance floors, dysentery, beaches, sad parrots and lawyers, hysterical laughs, happy coincidences, shiny convertibles, cockroaches, doctors, henchmen, handsome men, con-men, crying babies, [...]
Finally Monkeys!
And finally – Monkeys!!! After scouring untold miles of rain forests for them, a family of howler monkeys took up residence in a mango tree across the road from my house in Playas del Coco. The [...]
Traveling With my Parents (!)
I’m roaming Scandinavia with my parents, seeing family, tracing the paths of my dad's ancestors and connecting with each other. Our days are filled with beautiful, incredible scenery, a mystifying language, and quite a bit of [...]
German Airports
Germany is a beautiful fly-over - it looks a lot like the Winona area from the air, except there are a zillion small towns separated by sometimes just a couple of miles of farm fields. I'm not [...]