Lateral Movements

The other day ’60 Minutes’ ran a feature on the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. I didn’t see the show, but I did read several posts on Facebook by people who were fascinated by the story, and who had never heard of the Sagrada Família before. Never heard of it. I gasped (for real) because I didn’t [...]

The first city I fell in love with was Paris. The second was London. YES. London. People around the world have always questioned me on this: “London? Why? It’s dirty, crowded, expensive <insert negative adjective here>, and horrible.” These things may be true. London can be a city of luxury or a city of poverty, [...]

This post is part of a series of interviews with travelers who have studied abroad. Meet Amanda Slavinsky from Michigan. This University of Michigan grad is the creator of the addictive travel blog Farsickness. In 2009, she spent four months studying history and Italian at John Cabot University, an American university in Rome. Here’s what [...]

Sometimes, when I get an idea into my head, I can’t shake it. I become infected by it, obsessed with seeing it through. My travel partner, Paige, was the same way. We were in San Sebastian, Spain, on the fifth of July, 2004. The next day was opening day for the festival of San Fermín, [...]

When I was a kid, there was pretty much one place we went to every year for vacation: Florida. Between visiting my mom’s family in St. Augustine and charging down I-95 towards Disney World nearly every summer, I felt like Florida was my second home. Going back to a familiar place was comforting. I knew [...]

When I first started traveling, I was very paranoid. If one thing was certain, it was that everyone I met was a potential thief who wanted nothing more than to get their grubby hands on my passport. Which makes it odd that my instincts deserted me when I actually did meet a thief. It’s also [...]