From the category archives:

The Freelancing Life

Welcome to Alaska

3 July 2010

I’m in love. My nephew, Passage Ray, was born 3 weeks ago, and since then, I’ve hardly missed a day of seeing him. He’s the first one of his generation in the family, and so right now, he’s the darling. I am so glad I made it back to the U.S., and Alaska, in time [...]

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Cooking on the Road – and a Reader Request

17 February 2010

One of the things I realized I’ve been missing while traveling is cooking. It’s a little difficult to create any sort of gourmet meal when you don’t have most of the essential ingredients for even a basic meal, let alone a complicated one. Dried pasta and canned marinara, or bags of pre-cut veggies and cans [...]

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Ferry to Dublin

29 January 2010

I took the ferry from Holyhead to Dublin a few days ago. I had been hiking in Snowdonia National Park (old training grounds for Sir Edmund Hillary before he attempted Everest) for three days before that, and getting to Holyhead (on the northwest tip of Wales) required a series of local buses and trains that [...]

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England: Bath to Exeter

17 December 2009

It has been a while since my last post. I realize this now, but of course, it didn’t seem that way until I sat down and counted up the days. How time flies when you don’t have to pay attention to it! So, to those of you who have been wondering: I am indeed still [...]

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The UK, So Far

4 December 2009

I’ve been from south to North and back again, basing my travels on the suggestions of friends and acquaintances and people I meet along the way, looking for a good place to base myself for my three months in the UK. It’s a difficult task. While I have liked all the towns I’ve visited, I’m [...]

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