June 3, 2016
This week, at last, we picked up our VW camper van that’s meant to serve as our home on wheels for the next ten months. It’s […]
June 1, 2016
When I backpacked alone across Europe many years ago, I made it my great ambition to find the continent’s best botanical garden and best tiramisu. It […]
May 29, 2016
Sometimes long distance travel can feel a lot like an extreme yoga class. You sweat and suffer and strain through the most uncomfortable positions, but afterwards […]
May 28, 2016
Awkward relations betweens spouses and in-laws, it is the grist of many weary witticisms and sorry subplots. Conversations between my wife’s side of the family and […]
May 25, 2016
Progress is coming on slower than a German summer, but this week we advanced like a Prussian infantry unit, one major maneuver closer to victory on […]
May 21, 2016
Into our third week in Germany, and we’re still spinning our heads trying to navigate the Kafkaesque channels of German bureaucracy. You have to give them […]
May 19, 2016
It’s impossible to fully appreciate a visit to Germany without some understanding of the country’s long and colorful history. Not even the most remote village is […]
May 13, 2016
If the Germans were prone to gluten sensitivity and wheat allergies the way Americans have proven themselves to be in the last decade or so, their […]
May 9, 2016
As we prepared earlier this week for our transatlantic flight and exodus from America, I kept telling myself that if we really pulled this off, it […]