I almost cried the day we got our first “ciao” on the street in our neighborhood. And then, ten minutes later, we got a second. Sure, they were from the Bengali guy from our corner market and the neighborhood pervy old man, but we finally felt like we belonged. Someone was actually happy to...
Living somewhere is a lot different than visiting. From the very moment we set foot in Rome this time, I felt remarkably different than I had on our previous visit. First, it was no longer entirely novel. There was some element of familiarity now:...
We arrived in Rome after a high speed train ride from Venice and jumped in a cab at the Termini train station. Twenty minutes later, we pulled up in front of our apartment… the one we’d been looking at on Google maps for months....
Tomorrow, I’m heading off to NYC – the first leg of the adventure. Here’s what today was like: Went to be at 7:30 AM this morning after a loooooong night of work and packing. Woke up 3 1/2 hours later at 11AM and started...
As I prepare for our year abroad, I’m asking myself what I hope to gain from this experience. Sounds like an easy one, right? Almost not worth asking really. But Jose asked me this a couple of months ago and it got me thinking…...
Here we are: less than one year away from our “moving to Europe for a year” adventure. It’s time to really focus up and make this thing happen! Here are some of the things I’m doing to prepare for our adventure: (1) Defining what...
Hitting the Road Not so easy to get out of bed this morning, but we needed to get an early start. Today we rented a car and set out to Bath and Stonehenge. The round trip was about 240 miles. Just like last year,...
