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 […]
Category Archives: Foreign Findings
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 […]
Foreign Findings: Love locks abroad and also, apparently, at home
I love seeing love locks. They always surprise me. I’ll be walking along, checking out other stuff and then I’ll spot them – a cluster of padlocks, some old and […]
Foreign Findings: The cross vs. beer (cross edition)
This is the morally superior counterpart to last week’s post where we chose drinking beer over seeing a cross in Guatapé, Colombia. The next morning, after our night of drinking on […]
The cross vs. beer (beer edition)
Finally, after about a million listens, it clicked: we can’t see the cross and drink beer on the same boat tour! He was telling us that we had to choose between the two.
Foreign Findings: The journey home and a horrible woman at the Bogotá airport
Andy and I got back from Colombia on Tuesday night. I sat down today to organize my photos and my thoughts and I can’t wait to get both of them […]
There are no such things as strangers, just friends you haven’t met yet… and other crazy things friendly people say (also, Olympiapark, Munich)
I have a confession: I’m not very friendly. That’s not to say I’m not nice or polite or a pleasant conversationalist, I like to think that I’m all of those […]
Foreign Findings: It’s for the birds
A few weeks back, when I wrote this post, I mention that I have some pretty bad tales about creatures from the sky but that those are for another time. Anyway, […]
Foreign Findings: My stake in the life aquatic
This week the internet was abuzz with April Fools jokes. My favorite was YouTube’s joke – it doesn’t have anything to do with the life aquatic, you’ll have to watch […]
Foreign Findings: A very flammable country
Last week, while Andy was packing up his luggage for an upcoming trip, I flipped on the TV to manage our DVR. Before I could make sure his favorite shows […]
Worldwide Shambles 