September, as usual, was a wild and crazy month and, as usual, I mean that in the best way possible. Not only did my big summer tour of Europe come to a bittersweet end, but I made an equally bittersweet…
Browsing CategoryRoundups
Month in Review: August 2015
August! It always seems to be a pretty good month, don’t you think? It’s the peak of summertime in the northern hemisphere when the weather makes for fun outdoor adventures and people are generally having a great time, making use…
Month in Review: July 2015
Greetings from Novi Sad, Serbia! Each time I write one of these roundups I find myself feeling dumbstruck that yet another month has managed to speed on by, but this time I’m far more flabbergasted by how much has happened…
Month in Review: June 2015
By the time June rolled around, I’d already been exploring Greece, my 23rd country, for nearly two weeks–and this was just the beginning of my whirlwind tour. I don’t think I slept in the same bed more than 2 nights…
Month in Review: May 2015
May is typically one of my favorite months of the year for a number of reasons. First of all, it means winter is long gone and spring is really kicking into high gear, so the weather is pretty much perfect…
Month in Review: April 2015
I know what you’re thinking! Why yes, this post IS indeed arriving a tad on the tardy side. I assure you, though, I have plenty of good excuses explanations for that. You may recall that I was rather mopey in March.…
Month in Review: March 2015
Greetings from Washington, friends, and happy spring! Despite the cheerful weather here in the central Cascades, the month of March has left me feeling tired. As such, I feel more than a little entitled to use a tired old cliché–this month…
Month in Review: February 2015
I don’t know about you guys, but for me February seemed to come and go in the blink of an eye. How on Earth do two absent days feel so significant? I’m inching ever-closer to my departure from Medellín, so…
Month in Review: January 2015
First thing’s first: Happy 2015, y’all! Is this the year Marty McFly really traveled to in Back to the Future? No one seems to know anymore. If so, their predictions of hover boards were a little off base, and I…
Month in Review: December 2014
Are months getting shorter or is time going faster these days? It must be one of the two, because I could swear I just wrote one of these yesterday and yet here we are, 31 days later, me not even…