Out of the frying pan and into the lap of luxury

I feel like the future is simultaneously wide open and closed down. I’m not talking globally, though that’s certainly the … More

A quest for confinement number 3: the baguette

What is left when everything has gone south? The pleasures of Paris are closed up once again, in compliance with … More

For as much as I love thinking of myself quasi-nomadic, I sure like to talk to myself about someday settling … More

I keep getting my socks knocked off by the hilly backcountry north of Montpellier. On a tongue-in-cheek map of France … More

I love that sense-sharpened feeling of arriving in a new place. Taking it all in, eyes wide open, as you … More

We made it back to Mourèze, a town I’d mentioned in my last post, and you know what? I still … More

Enamored of our driver’s licenses and motivated by a sense of the clock ticking down on our time here in … More

Woo-hoo, we’ve been sprung!* Almost the second the second confinement was lifted, we got out of town, fleeing the classic … More

Way back when, I had a Tumblr, mostly for pictures of our 9 month are-we-really-going-to-do-this trip. I’d been meaning to … More

A friend gave Mark the Dr. Seuss book Oh, The Places You’ll Go during a time of great uncertainty in … More