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Drinking Up Barcelona
In the Plaza Real near our apartment, next to one of Gaudi's lampposts. My elementary-level Spanish, packed away for four months since we left Argentina, re-emerged when we landed in Barcelona and I...
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The Costa Brava Retreat
At times during this journey, we find ourselves in a gem of a small town that seems disconnected from the rest of the world and even from the current time period. Last week was one of those weeks. The...
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In Rome, the Best Outshines the Rest
Yesterday in the late afternoon, while I was running laps around the Circus Maximus, I reflected on how the four of us started the day by getting to the Vatican at sunrise and scurrying behind nuns to...
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Snapshots of Venezia and Treviso
We spent three nights in Venice and four in Treviso, an enchanting town about a half-hour outside of Venice that leads to gorgeous countryside. This region looks like an exaggerated version of the Napa...
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A Typical Atypical Travel Day
I’ve written a lot about our days spent exploring destinations, but less about the transition days — those days that in some ways are the most interesting because we find ourselves scrambling and...
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Eat, Run, Love
A view from the Cinque Terre coastal trail, with the town of Vernazza coming into view. Last night I read Goethe and ate divine pesto, and this morning I ran across a mountain and climbed back into bed...
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A Tale of Two Hotels in Florence
A pano of Florence (click to enlarge) seen from the hill of Piazza Michelangelo. I have one piece of advice I like to tell pregnant women about how to handle labor and delivery: “Expect the...
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Some Days Are Like That, Even In Switzerland
Our view of Lugano, Switzerland, from the hills of Campione. “This is one of those days,” I said on our first full day in Switzerland as rain fell in sheets outside the window, obscuring the Alps. We...
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The Swiss Cascade and Castle That Inspired Poets (and Us)
Lauterbrunnen Over the past few days, we’ve glimpsed Switzerland at its prettiest and most poetic (which is such a relief after the stormy sky and mercurial moods detailed in the previous post)....
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Zermorgan’s Zermatt
Sunrise on the Matterhorn I’m sitting on my balcony of the Hotel Perren in Zermatt, Switzerland, listening to the church bells ringing out the day as the sun sets over the sheer 5000-foot cliffs to my...
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Essential Gear For Long-Term Travel
A year ago, as we packed up our house and got ready to go, I scanned various lists developed by travel experts of essential items to pack, and I invariably ended up more conflicted about what to bring...
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Rediscovering London and Windsor
An image of The Long Walk from the early 1900s. (Photo courtesy thamesweb.co.uk) Back in mid-April of 2007, I woke before sunrise in a hotel in the shadow of Windsor Castle and tiptoed out to run while...
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The Cure for the Brighton Hangover
Colly does the bungee jump trampoline against the backdrop of the Brighton Pier. Like cotton candy, Brighton is a brightly colored swirl of sweet temptation that’s tantalizing to taste but leaves you...
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83 Places, 5 Continents, 10 Months
Less than 24 hours after our plane from Heathrow landed in Los Angeles, the four of us walked into a Noah’s Bagels on Sunset Boulevard for an early lunch. Our sense of time and place were thoroughly...
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What A Long, Strange Homecoming It’s Been
“Let’s sleep with the kids,” I said on our first night back in our house, which echoed from emptiness because our belongings remained in storage. Morgan agreed, and with relief I unrolled my sleeping...
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One Year Later: The Time-Capsule Travel Letters and the ‘Eat Pray Love’ Backlash
Midway through our trip, my world-traveling friend Carolyn suggested that each of us write a letter to each other describing our feelings about the travel so far and our hopes for the remainder of the...
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Yosemite’s Curry Village: Good Times with the Bear Necessities
Our Curry Village tent cabin I was carrying my bag into Yosemite’s Curry Village, about to check into a canvas-sided, one-room shack that’s a hybrid of a tent and a cabin, when suddenly I came within...
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A New Season, A New Way
This time last year, we were flying from LA to Buenos Aires and pondering the coincidence, which felt more like fate than happenstance, that Morgan and I were starting our adventure abroad 25 years to...
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Happy New Year and New Blog
To all the subscribers who regularly read this blog: Thank you, happy new year, and please visit my new blog! I launched a new site a few days ago to combine my passions for running and travel. It’s...
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Announcing “Meet, Plan, Go!” for Extended Travel and Career Break Planning
I haven’t posted here recently because I’m now working on my other blog, The Runner’s Trip, but I’m back to share the link to The Runner’s Trip’s latest post because I think it’ll interest anyone who...
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