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Eating Vegan When Traveling
How to travel as a vegan
Sep 7, 20233 min read


Tier 2 Airports: Your Travel Gateway to Hidden Gems
As avid travelers, we're always on the lookout for the next adventure, the next destination that captures our hearts and leaves us...
Sep 5, 20232 min read


Foreign and familiar
We've had a busy few weeks here full of adventures. Firstly, #1 has visited and already returned to Israel. We had a nice visit, but it...
Aug 20, 20183 min read


T-minus 48 days
Quite a bit has happened since my last blog update, not the least of which is that last Friday, 1 June, we received our visas. As has...
Jun 4, 20182 min read


Me-ah-Me
The first time I traveled internationally, I traveled to France. This was in 1985, right after high school graduation, and I learned that...
May 7, 20184 min read


Not furious - pt 2
For the most part, the flight from Madrid to Philly was uneventful, even nice. Because the flight was virtually empty, I had my own row...
Feb 22, 20186 min read


Curious - pt 1
One of the ways that C and I were preparing ourselves for living in Spain was to watch a whole lot of travel videos on YouTube. A few...
Feb 21, 20184 min read


Más o menos
I found out, pretty soon after I got here, that I had missed the registration deadline for the February DELE 2A exam. I was mad--mostly...
Feb 2, 20182 min read


2! 4! 6! 8! Who do we appreciate?
Poor C is getting thrown into the deep end of parenting chaos. For most of our kids' lives, C was on the road Sun-Fri--there was even a...
Jan 25, 20183 min read


10,000 words
Valencia is stunning...the unconventional type of breathtaking that takes you a bit to notice, but then you can't unsee it. It is the...
Jan 18, 20181 min read


Less talk more see
Unless there is something truly worthy of writing up, I will likely just be taking a ton of photos and cross posting them today. To make...
Jan 13, 20181 min read


Divergence
We have to leave for the airport before the crack of dawn on Friday, and when I say we, I mean C, #1, and me. While I fly to Spain, #1 is...
Jan 11, 20181 min read


Quick & dirty update
Don't have too much time for a long post today, but I did want to update that I found out where I'll be staying in Valencia when I go....
Jan 4, 20181 min read


What I'm packing
As mentioned yesterday, the painters are here and things are starting to move quickly. After my post 2 weeks ago about struggling to let...
Dec 27, 20174 min read


Have apps will travel
Earlier in the week I mentioned that I'm a planner. In the age of the internet and smartphones, it's been easy to have access to...
Dec 8, 20175 min read


More than just location
We've been talking to our sons a ton about the changes that we can expect to face when we move. There are the obvious: language,...
Dec 7, 20173 min read


Monday morning surprise
You know how things are going along then something happens and it takes a minute to get your head around what you just saw/heard/read?...
Dec 4, 20171 min read


Valencia
I have never been to Valencia and neither has C. We've been to Spain, and we loved it. However, deciding to pick up and move across an...
Nov 30, 20172 min read


Why?
It's a long story, but my sons and I are eligible for Spanish citizenship through my Dad's side of the family. I will share the hoops and...
Nov 21, 20172 min read
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