January 2017 – Costa del Sol, Spain With 500+ days of nomadic life under our travel belts it seems a good time to reflect on the journey. And, what better way to cover ground than by answering the questions we are asked most frequently. Every day this week, we’ll tackle a new topic. In case … More After 18 Months of Travel, Here’s our Favorite Destinations.
January 2017 – Costa del Sol, Spain The farewell party was raucous, starting in the afternoon and ending 12+ hours later in the wee digits. With blurry eyes, a few hours after saying goodbye, we boarded a sunrise flight from our long-time home in Birmingham, Alabama bound for Milan, Italy, the first stop in an … More Nomadic Life: How It Feels to Be Loose in the World for 18+ Months
Lake Iseo, (Il Lago D’Iseo,) Italy – June 2016 World-renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude give over a half a million people once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to walk on water for 16 days this summer. Pure joy. Those two words are the best way of describing the feeling of gliding across a ribbon of floating saffron above the sparkling … More How You Can on Water in Northern Italy
Almost 46 years after the dream began, a massive art installation by world-renowned artistic team Christo and Jeanne-Claude comes to life in Northern Italy, giving over half a million visitors the surreal experience of walking on water. “The Floating Piers,” an installation of grand proportions imagined by acclaimed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, became a reality … More The Floating Piers via a Long Path
January 2016 “As Americans, you should feel at home with the sounds of gunfire” our housesitting host says with that famously-cheeky Scottish wit. This was during our first walk with Craig and his wife Elly’s energetic Labrador as shots echoed through the woods around us. We had just arrived to a rural patch of northern Tuscany, near … More Gunshots & Raindrops: Housesitting in Tuscany
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