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A Tom Turkey, Showing Off We sat as a family the other day, feasting on roast turkey and apple-sausage dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, pumpkin pie and ice cream. The meal that whispers of family and tradition through the smells and tastes we’ve experienced in November of every year, for a lifetime. The scent of [...]  A Gap Year Redux We are making our plans to head back out: South Africa in November. It has been nice sitting here for a time, surrounded by friends and family. Slowly, more things have been sifted out of storage, and we’ve been shopping, as well. Coming is the process of paring back down to the [...] Early morning light on the walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia and its small harbor. Things we have learned along the way As we are taking time out of our world tour to spend time with a family member who is approaching the end of his life, we also have time to reflect on the things we have [...]
The sisters sharing a view of Andorra Sometimes it feels like living under a microscope, being in such close proximity to the family at all times. There is no independent life, when we explore it is together, everyone wants to go along to the grocery store, taking the car alone means someone else is left [...] Storm Clouds gathering in Andorra We spent nearly 12 hours underway, mostly windshield time in the car, driving from the tiny hilltop village of Pignona, Italy, in the hills above Levanto, to Andorra. We followed the freeways around the north shore of the Mediterranean, and cut inland as we approached Spain. We didn’t know much [...] The image of discarded furniture and belongings sitting on the side of a trail, wood warping in rain and sun fading fabrics always made me sad. I would picture people moving slowly across the country to Oregon, and becoming too weary under their load of belongings, perhaps due to the death of an ox or [...] In the years that have passed since I lived with my Oma and went to school on Germany for a year and John spent his gap year after college vagabonding through Europe, things have changed on the visa front. Our tentative plan had us landing in Europe in February, and not leaving for Africa until [...] Coloring Outside the Lines of my Imagination Fly fishing the Talachulitna River for Silver Salmon I should have guessed that a state nine times the size of new England would be hard to stereotype, coloring outside the lines of my expectations.My preconceived vision of Alaska was a reflection of other places I have been: Chilean Patagonia, [...] 1. GO. Get the crap out of the garage and drive up to the hill. Sometimes, just getting out of the house is the issue. How many times do we think, I’d like to ski today, but I’m sort of busy with… (fill in the blank.) How often do we have great ideas that we’d [...] Although neither John nor I have a great sense of sentimentality over things, a few of our belongings make us feel something when we look at them. As you would expect, many of these were found or purchased while traveling; the yerba mate gourd from Chile, the Japanese kokeshi dolls. Some are heirlooms, others are [...] |
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