Machu Picchu, Peru
In April, I had the chance to visit the world famous Machu Picchu tucked in the hills west of the Sacred Valley in Peru. Not wanting to spend the several hundred dollars on the Incan Trail trek, I...
View ArticleColombia
My last two weeks in South America I again spent traveling with Emily, my Belgian world traveling friend, in Colombia. From hiking the Monserrate in Bogota, to surfing Costeno Beach, to jungle trekking...
View ArticleA Pilot, a Cinematographer, and a Nomad Meet in Iceland
Arriving at the hostel in Reykjavik 18 hours after my travel day started in Freeville, New York, where I’d been visiting my veterinarian sister, I shuffled off to my hostel dorm bed, rolley-eyed from...
View ArticleScotlandish Freedom
I’m Pearl Jam bound. For the first time the show will be outside North America – Leeds, England where I’m bound to hear “I’m Still Alive” ringing in my ears before the night is out. While Scotland...
View ArticleJuan Jose and the Camino Gift
It was the third day on the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage across Spain spanning almost 600 miles from Irun through Santiago de Compostela — where the remains of James the Apostle are purportedly...
View ArticleOn the Camino de Santiago: Crossing Cantabria
The moment I crossed into Cantabria, it was clear that I was in Spain Spain, not Basque Country “Spain”. The Spanish flag flew everywhere I strode for six days during the middle of September as I...
View ArticleOn the Camino de Santiago: Basque Country
The Basque Country. It’s tough to put into words what boils down to an emotion, a feel, a sense, which doesn’t translate into thought, but of timelessness and belonging. A sense that everything that is...
View ArticleCamino de Santiago: Across Asturias
Asturias was noteworthy on my Camino de Santiago journey across Spain for a couple reasons: it was long and mostly solo. Somewhere during my second week on the camino, I realized, with a sinking...
View ArticleCamino de Santiago: End of the World
The End of the World, or Finisterra, where Europeans scanned the horizon during the flat-earthed Medieval Ages scared of the soul crushing waterfall at the edge of the horizon they could almost...
View ArticleThe Window Where Tooth 7 Should Be
The story you’re going to read, part of it anyway, used to traumatize me to tell. But, as it’s been pointed out, there’s a gap in the smile I give these days, and there are dentistry questions that...
View ArticleRoman and Venetian Escapades with Mom
In November, I had the privilege of Mom joining me for my Italian travels. Coming fresh off the Camino de Santiago, the history of the Catholic Church was fresh on my mind as we toured Rome, the...
View ArticleExploring Italy’s Mediterranean Coast with Mom
Mom and I wrapped up our late fall travels together in Italy by touring the Mediterranean coast starting in the north at Cinque Terre, then working our way south to Naples, Pompeii, and Sicily. Cinque...
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