It was on a weekend snowboarding trip in Vail, Colorado when it occurred to me I could get an apartment there for the winter to enjoy on the weekends. It was as my winter lease was ending when it occurred to me I wanted to live there full-time that summer. And it was as the […]
In the last six years I lived in the center of major European cities, in the countryside of others, in US ski towns, in cow towns and in motown. If you are thinking about doing something similar here is a quick guide to help find the perfect place: 1. Mountain towns Ideal for: Semi-committed to […]
40 years and the 25 lessons I learned in them… 1. Assholes are assholes and good people are good people and only on the very rare occasion does one become the other. 2. Your heart is right 50 to 75 percent of the time. Your gut is right 100 percent of the time. 3. Everything […]
Everyone always asks, “Where is your favorite place to travel?” Choosing one favorite is an impossibility but narrowing it down to 10 is, well, at least a little easier. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain The four words you need to know about Menorca? Go. There. Right. Now. (Here are […]
A healthy dose of relationship dysfunction in my mid-twenties would seem sufficient motivation to improve my boyfriend selection skills going forward. However, it was around the age of 28 I made a decision to be in a relationship which would prove to be the most profoundly ugly one of all. That decision would ultimately involve […]
Background: New Year’s Eve 2009 I step off a Malaysian water taxi at Uncle Chang’s Backpacker Lodge to meet that David. A year and a half later we would be married and me and the two bags Delta airlines would allow me were headed to his pueblo muy pequeño, 30 minutes north of Barcelona. My […]