We're taking a break from real life and going on an epic road trip: around the world in two years.
There have been a surprising number of camels in our lives lately, given the background rate of camel exposure over the 15 years or so preceding this trip. As a means of transportation, I’m not sure the camel makes up in romanticism what it loses in practicality. As a food source, my limited exposure suggests […]
Morocco has the most different cuisine from American so far on this trip. My dad was telling me how sick I was going to get from the food and I believed him, but in the end none of us got sick, which was relieving to me. Most importantly the food was really good A restaurant […]
I left you with a cliffhanger at the end of my Hallowe’en/All Saints/Castañada post, in which I wondered how I was going to acquire a turkey for Thanksgiving here in Marrakech. Several of you took that musing quite seriously and reached deep into your contact lists for friends who were familiar with the area and […]
I was just in Spain, famed for their jamon Iberico and tapas. My mom was telling me about a college friend that went to Spain and to save money lived off the tapas that was served with beer. He is now a successful Microsoft employee. My mom told us that story when she was teaching […]
This feels like the fourth time we’ve started our trip around the world, and hopefully, this new beginning will be the most rewarding. Let me explain: The first “start” of our trip was when we left Palo Alto on June 3, and a couple of long driving days later, arrived in Canada. This was the […]
Since our departure from California in early June, we have not yet experienced any major American holidays abroad until now. We celebrated the 4th of July in NYC (where better?) and several family birthdays en route (Rowena the night before we left, Libbey in NYC, Rainier in the Bernese Oberland, and Shefler in Lucerne), but […]
I am in Paris which is very famous for its food. All these foods are famous for being amazing in Paris: escargot, baguettes, croissants, foie gras and frog legs. First, there is Bon Pêcheur or, in English, the Good Fisherman. It surprisingly is not a seafood restaurant. I had a rib steak and I asked […]
We had such great hopes for Paris. Those of the seven of us who are less enamored of the whistle-stop-style tour (i.e., if it’s Tuesday, this must be Brussels) have been eager for our longer tenure here, a whole month! We rocketed through the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, spending at most two nights anywhere. […]
It has been a long time since I have done a food review. This one is a bit late; I am in Paris and this food review is about Switzerland. I am excited to explore the three major cuisines of Switzerland: German, Italian, and French. They speak those three languages in Switzerland because they are […]
Shefler: “Today we went to the Louvre and we focused on looking at paintings today. After having a delicious beef tartar for lunch I went and looked at paintings. “The artist, Eustache Le Sueur, lived in Paris all of his life and is known for his part in the French academy for painting. A lot […]
