I know I’m a little late to ring in the new year, but I’ve always been a bit slow at transitioning. It takes me a few weeks to warm up to 2015 and to stop writing 2014 on everything at the office. Maybe this is partially due to the fact that I don’t make New […]
Because I’m hungry and thinking of Florence, here’s a little story about lasagna: Seven years ago in Florence, Italy I ate the best plate of lasagna in my life. I was sitting on a wooden bench across from a pair of middle aged Italian housewives enjoying a quick meal and an elderly Italian man to […]
Last weekend my girlfriends and I (including the intrepid travellingmo!) descended on the Los Olivos/Solvang/Buellton area for our annual girl’s getaway weekend. We tasted excellent wine (and beer!), we dined on gourmet cheeses, salami, and quinoa salad, we lounged in sulfur mineral springs and swam in the beautiful blue Pacific! And the entire weekend cost […]
Originally posted on A Stranger In Paradise:
26 May – 27 May, 2014 I was tired, sad, and scared when I said goodbye to my boyfriend, Zac, and boarded a mini-bus at 7:30 am bound for Belgrade. I’d never traveled by myself, and here I was, about to go to a place I knew fairly…
Originally posted on As of Now:
For my latest project/experiment I am going to write down the latest news from three randomly picked cities in the Arab world. I will also include cities in Israel and Turkey. To do this I put together a list that included the 10 most populated cities of each country (though…
Michael and I were on our honeymoon in Italy and had started out our trip in Florence. Although Florence is one of the most touristy towns in a country that snags over 46.1 billion tourists a year, I can’t help but love it. The town is absolutely beautiful and you can’t walk five feet without stumbling across a bit of classical statuary, a mathematically perfect building, an amazing Italian restaurant (but really, what Italian restaurant isn’t amazing?) or a gelato stand. If the townspeople had had the presence of mind to throw a grand medieval castle into the mix I would dub Firenze heaven on earth and you would never hear from me again.
Before moving on to Ljubljana, I forgot to include this memorable picture of Mo and I at Vintgar gorge last time. This might help explain why we got lost coming back. Bright and early Wednesday morning (about 11am) we packed up our things and headed for adorable Bled bus station to catch a ride to […]
For the next week it’s just me and this little lady while Michael takes a much-needed vacation to Big Sur. Being a full-time daddy ain’t an easy job and there’s no benefits package or sick leave. Thus, whenever I’m home for a good while and the opportunity arises he heads for the hills. Or, in […]
I left off last time in the middle of a Slovenian cream cake, which is a good place to take a break. Bled has so many amazing things to do and somehow Mo and I managed to cram it all into one day. Looking back I’m not quite sure how we managed to do it, […]
It might have been the jet-lag talking, but the first words that come to mind when describing Bled, Slovenia are beautifully surreal. One day I was jumping on a jet plane in drought-plagued, palm-tree-filled Los Angeles and the next I was twiddling my toes in the clear alpine water of Lake Bled, leisurely paddling my […]
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