I wake up to the rooster’s crow. Not because a rooster is crowing, but because my alarm is Jason Mraz’s “Back to the Earth” and that is how the song starts. No living roosters are crowing, because they are not up yet. Like good, Godly creatures they wait for the sun. I’ll hear them in […]
Harvest!
Time has really shifted gears. September has come and gone despite the daily pace being wonderfully slow. After the rush of the road trip that took us along 5,000km (yep, thinking metric now, we are so cultured) coastlines, over the Alps, through farms and urban centers, nothing sounded better than staying still for a few […]
Rest
Five minutes from where we sit, a Roman palace is filled with cafe’s selling octopus and sea bass cooked to perfection, Croatian wine and beer is being poured for under $3 a glass, and sweet smelling pastries still perfume the air outside the bakeries. Yet we sit, watching Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” – […]
Bucket List #1: Lake Plitvice
Well, we survived what I have been the most nervous about for the whole trip: driving in Europe. We managed to navigate signs in German, Czech, Croatian, and Italian over the past few weeks. Czech wins for being the most confusing (the confusion mostly thanks to Google maps not having the best information on their […]
Road Trip – First Leg
Our roadtrip is underway* and we are still holding steady. All’s well here as we have found a steady rhythm of wake up-coffeetime-explore-drive-explore(new city)-read-sleep repeat. And we have driven a lot in this first part of the road trip. In hindsight, front-loading some of the longer drives while getting accustomed to driving in Europe, on […]
Iceland – The Other Half’s Half
First stop, Iceland. Score between Icelandic bodies of water and me: 2 to 0. Iceland was a perfect practice round for our travels: a good place to make some mistakes, work out the kinks, and still be awed and amazed at the new surroundings we were in. Mistake one, getting a manual car when only […]
Iceland, first half
Tonight* we are ending the first leg of our centipede of a trip with a windy night near the airport. Without a doubt it has been a good start but I think we are still unwinding from the craziness leading up to our departure and that brutal eastbound jetlag, good thing we will be here […]
Adventure is Out There
It was on a napkin, in a dimly lit eatery in Nashville, that Oliver and I first dreamed this trip. Maybe it was the mind-blowing deliciousness of the food (Urban Cafe – shrimp and grits – no regrets) or the infatuated high of our new romance, but we sat there on the same side of […]
First!
Wow. Well. Here we are, about to embark on a little adventure. Here I am, writing more words in this first post than I have shared on any social media for the last three years combined. I think I am far less worried about the first. So what are we doing? There still is […]