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This travel journal entry details a visit to Seattle and a road trip to Washington state's west coast.

If you came here by way of the “Hunting Ghosts, Pt. 1” entry, you should have a rough idea of how we survived that experience and, maybe...

This post details my own experience of division at the Peace Wall in Belfast and a brief explainer of Ireland and Northern Ireland disputes.

A couple weeks ago, I was going through some paperwork and rediscovered a journal from a part of my past that continues to follow me...

This post details a trip to Belize (San Ignacio, San Pedro, ATM Cave), as well as a day trip to the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala.

The time has come to leave Italy. Thick, dark clouds are rolling into Venice as we take off, and that’s not a place I want to be when it...

This travel journal details both the fascination and confusion brought on by one of the world's great cities: Venice, Italy.

This journal post details our first visit to Florence, Italy.

We start the day in Siena with a continental breakfast – the standard, uninspired fare of hardboiled eggs, cold cuts, cheese, bread. Evermore important, though, we get the party started by pounding some machine-made espresso, then we head outside. The van pulls up right on schedule, and we are the second couple in. We stop at two more hotels up the road, then begin the 45 minute trek along winding roads of Tuscany. Eventually, the medieval towers of San Gimignano start to pee

“Tuscany looks like what all of Italy should look like.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (attributed) We stare out the train window as the...

This post details a day trip to Naples and Pompeii from Rome, during our summer excursion through Italy.

The big news today is that it’s been 75 years since Nazi Germany formally accepted surrender against the Allied Forces, marking the end...

This post details the Rome portion of our summer travels through Italy.

This travel journal details three busy days spent exploring London.

The longer I'm here, the smaller the city seems. At first, it seemed like this vast, never-ending land. Sure, it technically it's a sprawling place, but Los Angeles becomes smaller based on what parts of it apply to you. Nothing ever really ever takes me to southern parts of the broader city, like Compton and such, anywhere east of downtown, or northwestern parts like Calabasas or Simi Valley. Even North Hollywood sometimes seems like a stretch because it's in "the valley" (a