I have this…sense…when we pull back into domestic waters on debarkation morning and my cellular service is restored. Something that wakes me up and tells me I’m reconnected to the world. But connection is a bittersweet pill to swallow. After 8 days with Mom and Stephanie, I was ready to reconnect to my world. With Read more
Leaving Paris for Chicago was bad enough. A 4:30 am wakeup call so we could leave this beautiful place we’d spent weeks exploring? That’s just torturous. We had to be out of the hotel by 5:30 am to have enough time to check in for our flight, validate and process our VAT return, check our Read more
In many ways, I feel like this trip kind of snuck up on me. We’d been planning it for months, but it always seemed just out of sight until the moment it was actually here. This trip, our departure in particular, was extraordinarily more stressful than any other trip we’d taken. European culture and customs Read more
I Said “Brrr, It’s Cold in Here” There was a little more sun when we woke up on Day 2 of our Big Apple adventure, but there was also forecasts for snow, wind bursts of up to 60 miles per hour and wind chills lower than anything the city had seen since 1993’s Storm of Read more
It always begins the same way: someone gets restless. Someone finds a good deal. Someone takes an idea and runs with it. When I say “someone,” I’m usually referring to myself. I got restless. I found a good deal. I took an idea and ran with it. My next trip felt too far away and Read more
