By Melissa Yesterday was my dad’s birthday.  We spent it in Naples.  He lived here for several years back in…

By Melissa I am not Ukrainian.  My mother was 100% Norwegian and my father, we don’t really know, but the…

I read this (below) in the New York Times daily (now three times weekly) COVID newsletter. It seemed a fitting…

I’ve been asked a few times since we’ve hit the road two weeks ago: “what’s it like to be traveling…

Lyon France has the second most murals of any European city only to Berlin. They pop up out of seemingly…

As we pack and prep to leave for an extended trip, we do so with mixed emotions. Two weeks ago,…

Living 5 hours ahead of the east coast of the US, 7 hours from our other home and 8 hours…

When I think back a few years, pre COVID and during our full-time-work lives, many winter Sundays were spent thinking…

I guess COVID will find us all, eventually. We’ve been two of the most careful people you could be: truly…

International travel can be stressful in the best of times, even before COVID was a daily household word. For those…