February 22, 2017
Since removing ourselves from a perfectly comfortable life on California’s idyllic Central Coast, exchanging safety and security for a world of exotic uncertainties, we are continually […]
December 4, 2016
It’s been almost two months in the Pyrenees, and we are already settling in like a family of mollusks atop a bed of seafood paella. Which […]
November 8, 2016
This week we celebrated the six-month semi-anniversary of our European road trip and working vacation. We’ve unpacked our luggage in at least seven different guest rooms […]
August 24, 2016
Stephen King once said that the road to hell is paved with adverbs. I have since discovered that the road to freedom is lined with towering […]
August 17, 2016
As the Olympic season sprints into action in other parts of the world, our Work-Away marathon continues, cross-country style, among the paradisal rolling hills of lower […]
August 10, 2016
If you’re going camping in lower Bavaria, go where the locals go. The locals go fishing. How we even arrived in this dorf of a burg […]
July 15, 2016
The Germans have a word for everything. That’s the overworked rumor anyway. Of course, like most stereotypes and urban legends, there’s some truth to it, and […]
June 8, 2016
Following my recent post about home schooling, I’m afraid I may have given the false impression that all we do here is sit around drinking beer […]
June 5, 2016
Now that we’ve gotten through the obstacle course of licensing and purchasing—in that order—a vehicle, we are graduating to the next level of bureaucratic combat. It […]