My family has a tradition: when each child reaches the age of nine, they get to plan a trip to anywhere in the world! The trip is with parents, but no siblings allowed. Nine is a good age – you’re still young enough to want to hang out with parents (no teenage…
Category: Destinations
Peru & Bolivia
Travel Blog of Peru & Bolivia 2016
Dirk
Dirk – ‘d&rk (noun) : a long straight-bladed dagger When I was a wee bonnie lassie, I met a Highlander on the Isle of Skye. He was dressed in full Scottish regalia. He caught me glancing at the handle of his dirk, so he brought it out to show me. He…
Hallo, God?
Outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, an older man dressed in a pristine white robe was preaching to the world. He would dance around the pigeons and pick up a phone – just a red receiver with a long cord, not connected to anything – and shout into it “Hallo?!…
Dominican Republic
Idaho
Sweden & Finland
Photo Blog of Sweden & Finland 2015
Left ID at Home
Flight to attend a work conference in Orlando: 8:55am 7:45am: Arrive at LAX via Lyft. Perfect timing to stroll onto my flight 7:48am: Boarding pass machine is out of ink. 7:50am: Enter short security line and quickly realize my driver’s license is in my pants pocket, back at home. I have no other…
Australia Tour
Hiking Shoes
After a grueling first backpacking adventure into the Grand Canyon in 2002 with cheap hiking shoes, I upped the game and got better shoes when I returned in 2003. These became my trusty hiking shoes for the next decade, though I probably only wore them about 3-4 other times. As my mom and…