July 13, 2018
Summer vacation is well underway, and we’ve spent the last 10 days in the charming little city of Weimar, Germany. A cultural treasure chest, Weimar is […]
April 28, 2017
Two weeks ago—or was it three?—we packed up the bus and bid farewell to Erfurt, Germany, heading south toward the Spanish Pyrenees. Which has prompted a […]
April 11, 2017
I woke up the other morning in the back of a Volkswagen camper van, trying to remember where exactly I was, hoping for something more definitive […]
April 7, 2017
Last week we completed our tenth and what appears to be last Work-Away stint of the seemingly endless 2016-17 road show. Three and a half weeks […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
May 2, 2016
With Germany on my mind, filled with thoughts of gingerbread houses and Hegelian dialectics, I penned these quick stanzas inspired by German philosophy. None of it would […]