It’s been two months since my last post, but I’ve been wanting to get at least one more done before I really set this project aside. It’s a sad commentary on my work life that it’s taken me this long to find enough time to sit down for a few hours and get this together. But, the final chapter needed […]
Sabbatical Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Up and Down and All Around the Lysefjord
Sorry. It’s been a while. Getting started with this school year has been h a r d. More on that another day. For now, on with the story of the end of the sabbatical travels…(And, apologies in advance for the massive number of photos. I can’t help myself.) After getting dropped off in Stavanger (see previous post), we crashed for […]
Bergen and the Boats
For some reason, a number of years ago, the phrase, “whatever floats your boat,” entered my vocabulary. And, whenever I use that phrase with Jessica, I suggest that she form a band named Jessica and the Floaty Boats. She, for some reason, finds this much less amusing than I do. Hmmm… Anyhow…after leaving Aurland, we had a couple of floaty […]
This land is Aurland, this land is our land…
Jessica and I are back in Santa Cruz now after a few weeks of busy travel. I’ve got some more Norwegian adventures to catch y’all up on, so hopefully I’ll get a few more posts out before I get completely hammered by work… After Jessica finished her interviews in Oslo, we ended our second stint of European travel with three […]
Oslo Wanderings
The last stop on Jessica’s work-tour of Europe was Oslo, Norway. It was far less busy for her than Stockholm, but just busy enough that we didn’t have time to do too much there. We also were spending some time prepping for our last hurrah–three weeks of mostly-hiking in the fjord-lands of Norway. (More on that in the next few […]
Re-energizing in Stockholm
In my last post, I raved about Copenhagen. Stockholm is better. We spent longer here than any other place we’ve been other than New York and London (which were measured on the scale of months, not days). Other than a three day weekend (Monday was the National Day), Jessica had interviews or archival research every day. It turns out, we […]
More Friends! More Buildings! More Treats! (Quick stops in Köln, Bonn, and Copenhagen)
After leaving Switzerland, our next week and a half was a bit different. Jessica had less scheduled work, my job-seeking madness was over, the mountains were behind us. Instead, we had three pleasant, but completely different low key stops. But, first we had to brave the drunk football fans on our train. They were in the next car, but through […]
Highs and Lows in Switzerland
If you’re following along, you may have noticed we went from Paris to Tours to the Dordogne (pretty far south in France) all the way up to Amsterdam…and now all the way back down to Switzerland, nearly as far south as we had been before. So much for efficiency. But, it was the timing that worked best for our families […]
Bikes, Flowers, Canals, and a Naked Boy: Adventures in the Netherlands and Belgium
Apologies in advance…the last couple of weeks were kinda epic! After getting dropped at the train station in Sarlat, Jessica and I had a long trip up to Amsterdam. Not only did we have three trains, but we had to take the Metro across Paris to change from one station to another. Regardless, we arrived to three interesting things in […]
France is Pretty
You read the title, right? That’s it. I got nothing else to say. No. Of course I have more to say, but I will warn you that this will be a photo-heavy post because there was just so much beauty during our week and a half there. Before I get into it, a COVID update. Jessica and I only traveled […]