Love in Hermosa Beach, California
"Do you like to dance?" asked my Honduran lyft Driver, named Sunday. “Because if you like to dance, I know just the place. If you like...
True Story
These true stories all happened in the past 30 hours. - The first conductor waved out the window to her home and cats, and then proceeded...
The Art of Packing is (very) Hard to Master
When I was a kid, we didn't travel much. Trips to New Jersey to see my grandparents once or twice a year or visits to Houston or...
The Trip Not Taken
It's 3 am and I'm researching. I'm on my side, the Iphone light dimmed, trying to not wake up my husband. I'm flipping through various...
24 hours in Chicago
It was 11pm. I was in downtown Chicago, near Union Station, attempting to hail a cab, and balancing my (always) unusually large suitcase...
The Long Way to Vegas
It's 9 pm and the electricity on the train goes out. This is planned. 6:30 pm finds me boarding in Austin. I find a seat next to a quiet...
Earliest Recorded Travel (According to Facebook)
In 2008, in the earliest record of travel that exists on the great wide world of Facebook, the Konig- Gidseg's took a train to NYC. This...
I've Never Been a Traveler
At 11, I stopped taking planes. We were set to visit my grandparents in New Jersey, as we did every year, and I remember telling my...
