While in Romania, we decided to trade the hustle and bustle of Bucharest for a night at our friend’s rural farm house. We relaxed in …

After my first, and admittedly very brief, stint in Romania, I wasn’t too interested in returning.  It wasn’t that it was terrible: in fact, I had …

2013 was a year of many things, most notably adventure, experimental cooking, and curious eating.  Over the past year, I was exposed to more than …

Two weeks ago, I experienced the most emotionally difficult day of my life thus far.  As I looked out the window at the grey cloudy …

I’m not sad that our rafting adventure was cut short: because of the Budapest water police, I was able to travel to new places and …

Many months ago, J started talking about traveling down a major river…by a hand-made raft; the child in him wanted to be a pirate.  Although …