USA | Monday, 13 Oct 2008 | Views [105]
Sometimes I forget where I am. I have to remind myself that I am, in fact, in Italy. A place that I have always admired and wanted to go. I am living a life here I have always wanted to dapple in (living and working in a sustainable agricultural lifestyle ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 11 Oct 2008 | Views [136]
A goose committed suicide by hanging last night. My second night on the farm. Its thin, elegant neck dangling from the low slung branches of a tree. Her eyes were squeezed tight as if she were wishing real hard. Perhaps to die, or maybe something lighter.... Read more >
USA | Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [719] | Comments [1]
This is not a story. This is a list of what to bring to Europe and some handy tips. When beginning this trip, Jess and I weren't sure what we would need to bring. I searched all over the internet but never found a good list of what to bring. In Greece, ... Read more >
Tags: what to bring, item list, helpful tips
ITALY | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 | Views [143] | Comments [1]
I felt it change on the train from Naples to Rome. I remember turning to Alys and asking her if she felt it to, how the light was changing. She said she couldn't feel it, yet I was so sure. I am programmed, it seems, to sense the onset of fall. Something ... Read more >
ITALY | Monday, 8 Sep 2008 | Views [206]
In an effort to not spend money, do something productive, and learn about organic food processes, Jess and I had planned to work on a farm in Italy for the last bit of our trip. For me, that was 2 weeks and Jess was planning on dividing up her time between ... Read more >
GREECE | Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 | Views [137] | Comments [1]
"What do you love?" "What do I love?" "Say everything." I love the smell of Ireland. Clean, masculine, natural...I smelled it everywhere and no one could tell me what it was. I love the look of laundry drying on a ... Read more >
MACEDONIA | Friday, 22 Aug 2008 | Views [183] | Comments [1]
Here is a little bit of European drama for you: Greece and Macedonia do not get along. A long time ago, the land that is now called Macedonia was partly land of Yugoslavia and partly land of Greece. After it became independent, it decided on the name ... Read more >
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [297] | Comments [5]
I can confidently say up to this point our trip has run very smoothly. So smooth in fact that I have been wondering in the back of my mind for quite a few weeks now when something is going to, quite simply, go wrong. Not that I am a pessimist or that ... Read more >
HUNGARY | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [247] | Comments [1]
I've got the job of catching you up on more than two weeks, dear blog readers, so we are going to go fast. Jess and I left Prague the day after her parents after a pleasant Hare Krishna lunch with our friend Jeff. We took a bus to Budapest, a place I ... Read more >
Tags: budapest, hummus bar, szecheyi baths, croatia, war, swimming
CZECH REPUBLIC | Monday, 14 Jul 2008 | Views [194] | Comments [3]
Our car missed the exit off the freeway which meant we had to take a long detour to get to our destination. We were distracting the driver with our questions, some of which my mother, Joanne, had waited her whole life to ask. Alys, Joanne, and myself ... Read more >
Tags: family history, beer, road trips.
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