Thursday Five Favorite Things: Thanksgiving 2013 edition
This year the usual grieving over the last days of summer just didn’t happen for us. Last summer was a rough one (because of Andy’s tumor and all) and even […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
Where I’m Headed: Nowhere on a bus or train
Tomorrow I’m renting a car to drive myself and one bag just three hours and I’m finding the whole thing to be unnecessary and ridiculous. The fact that there’s no […]
740 steps up, 940 steps down
I’d like to know whose idea it was to build a four story building on top of this massive rock. What deranged sadist decided that every poor sap who risks heart failure by climbing 700 steps needs to climb another 40 in order to really be at the top? Who is this cruel being?
Friday’s Five Favorite Things: Lisbon nightlife edition
Before heading to Lisbon a few years back I remember flipping through some guidebook and reading that in recent years, the city’s once-hopping nightlife had been significantly scaled back. Well, […]
Travel Fail: We gain a day in the Irish countryside
I realized this doesn’t sound like a fail. In fact, gaining a day sounds kind of impressive – especially when the International Date Line isn’t even involved. Losing a day […]
Foreign Findings: What does a Nicaraguan frog say?
I remember learning what a Spanish rooster says. I don’t remember what I learned, I just remember learning it in my high school Spanish class. And I think there was […]
Friday’s Five Favorite Things: Ayr, Scotland edition
Pisa wouldn’t be so popular if it wasn’t for that building with the shoddy foundation. But the building, and it’s screwy way of standing up, does in fact exist, and […]
An American girl in Italy (aka the time I got spit on)
I got spit on once. I mean, like really spit on. It’s funny, that story is always one of the first ones to come out when trading old travel stories […]
Travel Triumph: A rare sporting success in Scotland
Last week, a game played at a friend’s baby shower prompted speculation at the Shamblin household about which traits would be best (or worst) for our future offspring to acquire […]
Friday’s Five Favorite Things: New places with old friends
Right now it’s sunny in Portland. Sunny. Right now. In October. In Portland. I love my city and to be honest, the rain doesn’t bother me as much as it […]
