Stop and Smell the Flowers
“Dead bushes,” I muttered. “We need to do something about it.” It had been more than a year since the pandemic started, and I was looking through the window of our condo at lifeless branches dangling outside. “Why don’t we get rid of them and plant some flowers? We work […]
The Prettiest Town in Mexico
“We are going to the prettiest town in Mexico,” Victor said as we were packing our backpacks for the flight. “Says who?” I demanded, “Who decides what’s the ‘prettiest town”? What’s the prettiest town in the US? In Europe? In the world? I’ve never even heard of Guanajuato before you […]
Rhode Island: Gilded Age of Our Travels
How do you spell “Victor”? How do you spell “Julia”? I did not know what I expected before visiting Rhode Island, but learning a new language was certainly not what I planned for. But here we were, at the gift shop of the Sailing Museum in Newport, unexpectedly immersed in […]
Part II: It’s Good to Be Home
Start with Part I here. Short version: Victor became terribly sick with a fever and rash on our 15-hour flight from Dubai to Newark. There was good news and bad news. Good news – Victor did make it back to the U.S. Bad news – we were landing in Newark […]
Long Way Home
On the morning of December 31st, Victor started running a fever. It wasn’t too bad, and he didn’t even want to slow down or skip any of the sightseeing we had planned for that day. I gave him a few pills of ibuprofen and forgot about it. We celebrated that […]
Unexpected Oman
There were many ways Oman surprised me, mostly due to my complete lack of knowledge about its history, politics, and, as crazy as it sounds, geographical location. For whatever reason, I only considered countries separated by a land border to be Oman’s neighbors and cultural influencers. It never occurred to […]
