Eloise at the Plaza
I am Eloise. I am six.
Wit and Whittier
Iconic Alaska in a day trip—we started in Anchorage, packed six wiggly kids into the car, and headed down the Seward Highway. We traced the coast along Turnagain Arm, which is a body of water branching off the Cook Inlet, which connects Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska, which is of course in the Northern…
No One Fell in a Crevasse
Standing on top of the Byron Glacier, I looked down at the meltwater flowing fast and cold out from underneath the blue-white ice, and the sunken parts of the glacier around me, and I thought about that expert glacier explorer who recently fell to his death in a glacier crevasse, and I hightailed it over…
Do You Run From Moose?
So the kids and I flew from Belgium to Alaska and it was a huge hassle but now we’re HERE and it’s AWESOME! Our very first day hanging out in a jet lagged stupor with the cousins we went to ride scooters along the Campbell Creek Trail. There were people around and we brought bear…
The Itinerary—Italy and Greece 2021
An overview of our trip to Italy and Greece, summer 2021, to celebrate covid vaccinations
Hot Times in Old Town Nafplio
“If it’s this hot NOW, how will the rest of the summer be?” was a frequently repeated concern during our late June/early July visit to Greece. With a horrendous series of wildfires between then and now, plus a newly-appointed Chief Heat Officer in Athens, they were right to be concerned. The heat in Nafplio was…
Great to be in Greece!
Our worst transit plan involved missing the shuttle and pushing our two suitcases uphill for a mile in Positano (they are rather heavy—four people for a month), taking a nauseating bus for an hour to Sorrento, taking an unairconditioned train for over an hour to Naples. It was the hottest day of our trip yet—it…