Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Ahhh, home, I found myself thinking on the train ride home from the airport post-Australia last summer. It’s a funny sensation to find yourself relaxing into a foreign country’s sphere of home. Is it home, or does it just feel less unfamiliar? The real trip came last night. I stepped out of the airport into…
Flying Space A is worse than any bad relationship I was ever in. When I reach my limit—enough is enough!—it has just the right honeyed words to lure me into giving it another chance. One last chance. One more time to change. I know its character; I know this story ends badly. I still come…
I had this great plan to spend a day in Mexico while I was in San Diego for a bonus passport stamp and tasty tacos, but the general consensus among people who live here is, “Yeah, we’re not really supposed to do that these days….” I bought a blanket identical to my parents’ beach blanket…
I’m in Mexico…I’m in Italy…no…it’s Southern California! I was reading a book about Chianti, Italy, which made me want to go wine tasting, so I searched for local wineries and ecco (that’s Italian for voila): two days later my friend Rebekah and I were tromping through hilly vineyards and flower-lined dirt roads just 30 minutes…
At the moment I am giving Space A a big thumbs down. If I ever get back to Japan I will try to do a more fair assessment. But for the past four days nothing has left from anywhere around here heading west. Even if I could get as west as Hawaii, I called and…
It about broke my heart last year when the last week of March brought swirls of snow. In Florida we were on the beach every year by March. Snow?! Ugh. So defeating. I like winter well enough until the end of January, before the nonstop rain and sleet of February and March sets in. Then…
I spent another winter waiting for spring and looking forward to cherry blossoms only to find out Chris’ work schedule would take us to sunny CA. Ok, can’t complain—I have a tan for the first time since we moved to Asia. But when I arrived, pale and dressed funny, I still had cherry blossoms on…
