A Van Sleepover
And other tales from the road “I never thought I’d be sleeping in some stranger’s van tonight.” And I, for sure, never expected to have […]
Just Catching Up
After brief stays in Montenegro and Bosnia, I just finished a relaxing five-day stay at a Home Exchange on the coast of Croatia, where I […]
Drama in the Hidden Valley?
Over one of our village meals, as our hiking group of six and one guide were getting to know each other, I mentioned that there […]
The Thrill of Uncertainty
Too Easy Travel has gotten incredibly easy as well as predictable. Not boring, just perhaps not as adventurous as it once was, in the age […]
Democracy Under Con(De)struction
On our walking tour, I was reminded that Athens, the birthplace of “democracy,” was also served by an enslaved class that made up fifty percent […]
To the tip of the middle finger
We made it. Barely. The hike to the lighthouse, at southernmost point of mainland Greece, was supposed to take thirty minutes. The strong winds and […]
Led Astray in Turkey
“I might have led us astray.” My friend Jeff said this several times a day during our hikes in Cappadocia, a region in central Turkey. […]
Thanks for Your Patience, Istanbul
By the time an hour had passed, my patience was wearing thin as I waited for my host’s friend to meet me at my Istanbul […]
Opera and Wine in Budapest
Before Romania, I was in Budapest for a few days. This has been a fast-moving trip with a new country every few days. Not surprisingly, […]
Transiting Through Transylvania
Arrival The knock on the compartment door came just as I had started washing my face in an attempt to wake up after a night […]
Past | Present
“The scale is massive,” the British woman next to me on our shuttle bus said as we pulled into the Birkenau camp. This was the […]
How do you say “Kraków”?
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Debí Tirar Más Fotos
The last time I used a Eurail pass I was twenty-two and still in college. My friends and I hopped on and off trains and […]
Iceland’s Midnight Sun, Endless Roads, and Beauty Beyond Belief
I took a five-hour flight to another world two months ago. It’s hard to come up with ways to describe Iceland that don’t sound cliche […]
Passing on One Man’s Pass
The couple from Belfast stopped me in the parking lot just as I was about to pull out of the campground. “We were worried about […]
Dry Between the Drops
“Have you written your blog post yet?” I hear that question regularly from my travel companions. I’ve been traveling for 17 days in two countries […]