“You are a goof,” Ali tells me 100 times on average a day. Ok, maybe I am. I like strange things and sometimes find reality a bit too drab and constraining. So what the heck does this have to do with traveling? I love Calvin and Hobbes comics. There is a wonderful way that Calvin […]
Some people don’t seem to understand my desire for travel, especially the extended trips and slowly moving around a place. They see it as a vacation or a short break from “normal life” and don’t quite get when I say that I want the travel to be the “normal life”. I offer the following metaphor […]
A week ago Friday was my last day of work. I have been an employee for a long time, 13 years on and off at various companies and 5 and a half years at this one. Thus I have had a worker mindset to time and to money, now that I am free I am […]
The visa is one of the most important papers for an expat. It is our permit to stay and live where we are. Last fall I was rubbing up against my five years in Germany. This meant, as near as I could figure, my visa should “upgrade” to the next level. It sounds all video […]
One of my goals of moving to Germany over 5 years ago was to be able to travel. To be in the center of Europe and be able to make daytrips in Germany and spend weekends in Italy and beyond. Yeah, well. Being a traveler is one thing, being a part of working society, even […]
I’ve been working on a post about exhaustion for a while now. The ironic problem is that I have been so exhausted and burned out lately, I just can’t finish it. So I’ll talk about it like this and maybe I’ll finish that post at some point. I have been so burned out on everything […]
It is nice to have a picture of yourself while traveling. Unfortunately when traveling alone sometimes you have to take matters (or in this camera) into your own hand, stretch out your arm and click. I know you can ask others, but really I am both shy and slightly mistrustful of the photographic abilities of […]
August is the time for vacation in Europe. Italy nearly shuts down as every Italian flees to a cool shady place. German businesses grind to a well.. not halt, but definitely slower. The idea that X can’t be done because the one person responsible is on vacation for 2 weeks is well to be expected […]