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Operation: Rome 30 Sep 2011 | 11:55 pm
So it’s been a long time since I’ve posted an update here to my travel blog. Sorry for that. The happy truth is, I’m not really traveling anymore. I’ve moved in to an apartment in Rome, where I’ll st...
Turkey 16 Jul 2011 | 03:38 am
I had that dream again. The one where I’m back with you, mispronouncing “as-salāmu alaykum” and “teşekkürlar” once more. The one where I go farther, deeper, and finally see those parts of you that I p...
Austria, Italy 2, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway 16 May 2011 | 09:30 am
It would be a lie to say that the last seven countries have been a blur. Only Denmark, Sweden, and Norway went by quickly enough to be referred to in smeared visual terms. By contrast, I had a leisure...
Romania, Hungary, Slovakia 12 Mar 2011 | 03:06 am
Snow. Heavy, wet flakes at the border in southern Ukraine, fluttering against the windows while you wait in line at the Romanian checkpoint. You’re in the back seat of a van, driven by a Romanian pla...
Ukraine 1 Mar 2011 | 06:04 am
After spending a night in Lviv in a hostel, my main CouchSurfing host was Ira, a PhD student studying Croatian. Native to Lviv, Ira and her grandparents hosted me just outside of the city. Within an ...
Poland 16 Feb 2011 | 10:05 am
My train window from Wroclaw to Krakow framed a five-hour expanse of white ground like untouched paper. Entranced by the icy flatlands, I imagined their frozen histories of plowing, harvest, starvatio...
Steps Retraced 30 Jan 2011 | 07:37 am
Step 1: Fly back to Ireland and see Gideon, Hannah and Kathie again. Observe what happens when travel-addicts live in one place for over six months. Step 2: Fly back to Oregon to spend holidays with ...
Oregon 19 Jan 2011 | 12:51 pm
I haven’t been abducted while hitch-hiking or murdered by a CouchSurfing host, I promise… I was just in Oregon for a little while. But I’m back in Europe now, and will be posting updates again shortly...
Italy 2 Dec 2010 | 05:06 am
It starts at the border outside Chamonix, France, where you catch a ride with an Italian man in his 60s who is on his way to Aosta Valley, the left foot of the Alps. He speaks Italian to you, you spea...
France 7 Nov 2010 | 06:42 am
Something this trip has consistently given me is experience with novel ways of interacting with strangers. I’d already stayed in the homes of dozens of people I’d never met before, made friends with f...
