Our Year of Wander

We are now on our next major leg of our Year of Wander - Australia! It was always our plan to follow the sun a bit on this trip, but at the same time try to optimize for not being in the hottest weather for a given area - so when we were planning our travel in Australia for early Spring, we chose to go north (towards the equator) for the first bit to see Anna’s mom in Magnetic Island and sisters Cal and Rita in the Brisbane area, then traveling south to Hobart to see the rest

Minneapolis Our first stop back in the USA was Minneapolis, as a good friend and colleague of Nick’s was getting married there in October. Our flight from Rome to MSP was uneventful, and we picked up a rental car to use for a week in Minneapolis before the wedding.  Dressed up for the wedding! We rented a cute AirBnB in Lowry Hill / Calhoun Isles neighborhood. The hosts had remodeled a 3 story house with a basement into 4 units, setting them up with amenities well beyond the

Our last two stops in Europe before going back to the USA for a few weeks were in Italy: Tuoro sul Trasimeno for a week, and then Rome...

Anna, Emily and I stayed at an AirBnB on an olive farm that was set up as an “Agrotourism” destination, and along with a pool and the...

We spent a month with Anna’s sister Lizzii at her house in Guernsey, which is an island in the English Channel. Guernsey is not really...

We made a trip to France in August, spending most of our time in Paris (our most visited city), but also staying in Quincy-Voisins and...

This chapter of the blog is about our visit to the United Kingdom! We hit three areas: London, Cotswolds and Edinburgh over the last 3...

Sweden While in Sweden, I went on a Viking History tour  as I’ve been interested in Viking history since watching the Vikings series! A...

We spent much of June 2025 in Spain, visiting a few different cities, experiencing Tapas, Paella, Sangria, Bocadillos, the train system,...

The class: Cooking Point - https://cookingpoint.es/classes-spanish-tapas-madrid-spain In Madrid, I decided to continue my tour of cooking...

My First Paella cooking class - traditional Valencian Paella  The recipe Today, I attended a Paella cooking workshop hosted by My First...

When Anna and I were planning our Europe adventure back in February, we had already planned to go to Greece and Spain, but we hadn’t...

(Book via viator  or contact them through their website / email / whatsapp) On a whim, I contacted the Basiliko tavern to see if they had...

In New York, lodging is one of the major expenses and our original booking of a house fell through, so we ended up in a hotel in Midtown,...

Well, we did it! We moved everything into storage, rented out our house, packed our bags and flew to New York (through JFK), not to...

This post will talk through the availability of Dexcom and Omnipod devices, as that was one major consideration in how we planned our...

This week, I told my team at work that I am taking a year off to travel with my family. It turns out to be quite challenging to walk away...

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