Family
With All My Love
Today is Melissa’s birthday. And that means a lot of things at this moment. For most of our friends and family in the west, it means June 20 hasn’t actually happened yet, it means we’re six hours ahead of schedule…
Those Tricked Out Trick Fountains
Any afternoon that ends with someone drinking fresh mountain water out of a 400-year-old stone chair is an afternoon worth recording. I give credit to Melissa for deciding in advance, knowing we would miss the mountains, that we should catch…
On to the Once Stifling Home of Mozart
Being in a compact city, walking through crowds and narrow columns with no benches, through churches, chapels, cathedrals, castles, and catacombs, we both had to admit to missing the quieter, spread out life of the Swiss mountains. But today was…
Our First Thai Night in Austria
Anyone who knows us knows that every Friday night for the past decade has been Thai Night Date Night, literally without fail, even on vacation, minus one or two rare occasions during the year when something pushes it to Saturday.…
A Boat Ride Out of Interlaken
Probably the most cool, breezy, and relaxing two hours of our trip so far, riding along the cleanest, clearest water at the base of the Alps. After that we had lunch next to a castle, climbed up to and into…
I’ll Get Right to the Point
The hardest thing about traveling overseas is knowing when to stop, when to take a breath and really experience where you are before moving on to the next big thing you might never see again. There’s no question we had…
Celebrating 20 Years at the Highest Point
With the advent of social media in the early part of our marriage, I always tended toward romantic words–poetry or some other grand testimony of what Melissa means to me–but seeing as we reached the highest point of Europe after…
She’s Fearless, I Tell Ya
On the eve of twenty years since that rainy wedding, I’d like to point out that I undoubtedly married a fearless woman. I can give countless examples over the past two decades, but suffice to say that I chickened out…
Where the Marmots Roam Free
While we thoroughly enjoyed the caverns at the base of the Alps on our first day in Grindelwald, Switzerland, we didn’t consider that much of an adventure. It only required us to walk down by a river and follow a…
At the Foot of Mount Eiger
We might have grown a few extra toes walking up and down the slopes with our luggage to get here, but the hills were alive, the coffee was brewed, and we had a view. This became our home for five…
