2011 was meant to be “the year I stayed home.” After going round the world and back a handful of times in 2009 and 2010, I was ready for a break. And then…things happened—purely awesome, life-altering things—and I found myself visiting 21 states and 13 countries and moving 2,300 miles and then going around the [...]
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A Morning on the River, a Night at the Rodeo
July 13, 2011 By 25 Comments
Part of our motivation to take a Great American Road Trip was to explore the mind-bogglingly massive open spaces that the United States has to offer. In sheer numbers, our country has 84 million acres of protected land, 85 million miles of clean river and 4.5 million acres of ocean, lakes and reservoirs. This does [...]
Getting to Know You: The Boy Behind the Girl Behind the Blog
July 4, 2011 By 37 Comments
Today is SVV’s 37th birthday, which we are spending on a ship somewhere in Canada’s Gulf of Saint Lawrence. And what better way to celebrate our country’s independence his existence than humiliate pepper him with interesting questions? After all, the first round was his idea… Many readers (inaccurately) refer to you as SW on here. [...]
On the Road Again: Our Next Big Adventure
April 24, 2011 By 86 Comments
If you’ve been following my Tweets at all, you might have caught wind of the fact that we’re about to take off again…but this time for six weeks straight. (I know, I know…back from Hawaii for all of three days and already we’ve begun packing for the next trip! If it makes you feel any [...]
Photo Friday: Copenhagen, Denmark
February 17, 2011 By 33 Comments
SVV and I are in the throes of a quadruple back-up of our seven computers (yes, excessive), and in the process I came across a few random (low-res) Copenhagen files each of us took with our point-and-shoots when we lived over in Denmark that I hadn’t seen, well, since we lived in Denmark. It’s such [...]
Parachuting at Heavenly
January 25, 2011 By 29 Comments
Hello everyone, SVV here, reporting from Heavenly Ski Resort. We’ve been having a lot of fun using our outdoor cameras and trouncing about the slopes these days. The mountains are buried in snow and the skies have been crisp and beautiful. A friend of mine recently loaned me a new invention of his—adapted from his [...]
In 2010
January 3, 2011 By 40 Comments
For the past two Decembers in 2008 and 2009, I’ve done year-in-review posts. This one comes to you in January, as I was flying in Dec. 31, but I didn’t want to miss the chance to recap my 2010 for my own amusement, mainly because I have a short-term memory and tend to forget to [...]
Photo Friday: Møns Klint, Denmark
December 10, 2010 By 27 Comments
When SVV and I were but students at Danmarks Journalisthojskolen (try saying that five times fast) in early 2006, we traveled more often than not. (Most students at European universities would likely tell you the same.) But as opposed to Holland where we were often off frolicking in Spain or Morocco, Hungary or Romania, we [...]
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
December 6, 2010 By 30 Comments
By now, our annual ugly sweater jubilee has become something of tradition, so much so that she was on me to send out an e-vite the second the calendar registered November 1 and she was so eager to join the fun that she braved the drive-train-cab combo to come from Sacramento to the city for [...]
